Beckham County, OK - Deaths: John C. "Don" Butcher, 1924
31 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BUTCHER, JOHN C. "DON"
30 Oct 1924, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DON BUTCHER KILLED WHEN CAR TURNS TURTLE.
Our Canute correspondent tells of another sad accident as follows:
Don Butcher was coming to town Monday morning in a hurry and his car
turned turtle near the O. Rea home.  Mr. Butcher was pinned under his car
and died before anyone could get to his rescue.  His back was broken and
his ribs crushed in.  He leaves a wife.  They had not been married a year.
 His wife has the sympathy of the entire community.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon with a very large crowd in
attendance.  Rev. J. W. Newman conducted the services and spoke comforting
words to the sorrowing ones.  This he could do for the young man was
happily converted in the Nazarine (sic) meeting in August and had planned
to join the M. E. Church South.  Many beautiful flowers were sent by
friends.  The body was interred in the Fairlawn Cemetery at Elk City,
followed by a very large concourse of people.
John C. Butler, or "Don" as he was familiarly called, was born in Inez,
Kentucky, March 7th, 1904 and died October 27th, near Canute, Okla., aged
20 years, 7 months and 20 days.  On May 16th 1924 he was married to Miss
Susan Adkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anch Adkins.  His mother lives near
Canute, his father having preceded him several years ago.  He was a good
young man, and all who knew him loved and respected him.  He had been so
good to his widowed mother and was also a very kind and affectionate
husband, that he had the respect of all, which was shown by the way
neighbors and friends turned out to pay their last respects to the young
man.