Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Billie Brown, 1902
09 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BROWN, BILLIE
(29 May 1902, Thursday, Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Monday about 5 p.m., Billie Brown and Arch Rousey while driving to
the home of the latter tried to cross a branch of Whiteshield, and in
driving across a dam or causeway the water being two feet over the dam,
swayed the buggy off the regular track and turned it over in the flooding
creek.  The horses, buggy and men were swept through the first wire fence;
Mr. Rousey and the horses reached the bank and saved themselves; but, it
seems that Mr. Brown got tangled in the wire and was drowned.  His body
was found six miles below on the bank of the creek where the water had
receded it was considerably disfigured by wire cuts.  The inquest was
begun Tuesday and will conclude Friday; was buried Wednesday.
Billie Brown was a mild mannered, fine disposition person and was liked by
all who knew him.  He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss.