Beckham County, OK - Obits: William and Media Bright, 1931
Friday, 29 June 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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Obituary: Sayre newspaper, Sayre,  Beckham Co, Ok, 23 May 1931:
BRIGHT, MEDIA
BRIGHT, WILLIAM A.
The small two-room house in which they had lived seven miles south of
Sayre, for the past five years became the funeral pyre for Mr. and Mrs.
William A. Bright, shortly after midnight last night when fire of unknown
origin enveloped the wooden building and left on the charred remains of
the old couple as mute evidence of the tragedy that had occurred.
"Death by accidental fire" was the verdict given by a coroner's jury taken
to the scene of the conflagration in the early morning hours by Judge R.
S. Andrews of Sayre.
Rites at Berlin Sunday.
When neighbors noticed the flames and rushed to the farm home of Mr. and
Mrs. Bright, the small frame structure had burned practically completely,
they told Sheriff W. T. Velvin and other county officers who were
notified.
The bodies were burned beyond recognition.  Only knowledge that the two
old people lived in the house was evidence that it was Mr. and Mrs. Bright
who had been cremated.
The only known survivor of Mr. and Mrs. Bright is a brother of Mr. Bright
who lives in Berlin, Roger Mills county.  Funeral services will be held at
the Methodist church there at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.  Rev. O.
Davis, pastor of the church, will read the rites.
Mr. and Mrs. Bright came to this section of the state in 1907.  They have
been prominent citizens in several communities.  They were probably better
known in the Berlin community from which they moved when they settled
south of Sayre five years ago.
At one time Mr. Bright was county commissioner of Roger Mills county.  His
public life was set with activities which set him out as a prominent
citizen.
The elderly couple had many friends in the community in which they resided
south of Sayre.  Neighbors know of no difficulties the couple has had and
that had no enemies, killing suspicion of incendiary origin of the flame.