Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Ada Clarenda Boswood, 1928
15 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BOSWOOD, ADA CLARENDA
(16 Aug 1928, The Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Ada Clarenda Boswood, age 29, wife of W. K. Boswood of Dallas, Texas,
was killed Sunday morning, August 5th, at 7:30 by a collision of the car
which she was driving with a fast passenger train on the Texas & Pacific
railroad in the city of Dallas, Texas.
Mrs. Boswood was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Miller, pioneer
Beckham county residents, who live fourteen and a half miles northwest of
Sayre.  She was driving across the railroad about four blocks from their
home for some provisions for the Sunday dinner, when the accident
occurred.  Her small daughter, Betty Jean was with her and suffered many
injuries, however is now out of the hospital and getting along fine.
Mr. and Mrs. Boswood were married in Sayre in 1918.  Mr. Boswood was also
an early settler with his parents in the county and his mother, Mrs. R. K.
Boswood still resides in their old home place eleven miles northwest of
Sayre.
Four children survive the mother, Kyle, Billie, Betty Jean and Dorothy Sue.
The body was brought to Sayre and funeral services were held Wednesday,
August 9th at the Christian church , Reverend J. L. Davis officiating and
assisted by Rev. E. W. Seles.  Interment was made in the Sayre-Doxey
cemetery.