Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Clarence Brown, 1912
09 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BROWN, CLARENCE
(7 Nov 1912, Tuesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Killed by Lightning.
Clarence Brown was struck by lightning yesterday and killed.  He had been
rounding up a small stack of grain and had just placed the pitchfork in
the top of it, when a bolt struck him, tearing his face and body, causing
instant death.  He fell upon his face, and was dead when his friends, who
were only a few yards away, got to him.
Clarence was one of the noblest of men, and his death has cast a gloom
over the face of a multitude.  He worked in Hammon from its beginning
until last spring when he moved to his farm east of town.  He leaves a
wife and three children.
The W.O.W. Lodge met last night and after draping the lodge room in
mourning they voted to send a member with the corpse, while J. G. Potts
goes along with the family.
The lodge went in a body to the residence this morning and accompanied the
remains of their beloved Sovereign to the depot here, and the remains were
taken to Sedalia, Mo., on the 11:45 train. - Hammon Advocate.