Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Hiram G. Carmichael, 1929
08 Nov 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CARMICHAEL, HIRAM G.
(3 Dec 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
SERVICES ARE HELD TODAY FOR SUICIDE VICTIM.
G. E. (sic) Carmichael Is Found Hanging From Rafter Sunday Afternoon.
Services for H. G. Carmichael, suicide victim and well known Beckham
county farmer, who lived on the south outskirts of Elk City, were
conducted at 3 o'clock this afternoon by his old friend, Murray Orgain,
under the auspices of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows in the
Grubitz and Son funeral parlors.
Mr. Carmichael was found shortly after noon yesterday by his son, Fred
Carmichael, hanging from the rafter of a barn at their slaughter pen south
of the city.  He had left the house about 10 o'clock in the morning saying
that he was going to the farm a few hundred yards up the road to pick up
some cobs for fuel, his widow said.  He was missed at dinner when several
of his family had come for a re-union, so, soon after the meal his son
went to look for him.
A doctor was called about 2:45 o'clock and as soon as he arrived
pronounced Mr. Carmichael dead.  The ambulance and an attorney came at
about the same time as the doctor but the body was left suspended while a
return trip for Judge F. W. Snoddy, acting coroner, was made.  The coroner
pronounced the case "suicide," as the result of the inquest.
Occasion for the act was explained by his widow when she recalled an
accident in which Mr. Carmichael suffered a serious head injury three
years ago.  He never quite recovered from this injury, she said, and was
never "quite right."  This and the weight of worry accompanying a recent
business transaction in which his two farms south of the city were in
consideration for the place west of the city are given as probable cause
for the suicide.
Mr. Carmichael lived near here for the past nine years and during that
time built up a wide acquaintance, his friends here say.  He was
recognized as one of the foremost farmers in this immediate community and
was known far as a man of high esteem.
He was born in Indiana 69 years ago, and moved with his family to Missouri
when he was three years old.  He and Mrs. Carmichael had been married for
45 years, following their ceremony in Claremont, Mo.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carmichael, a daughter, Mrs. J. R.
Thigpen, in Oklahoma City and three sons, Fred Carmichael and J. R.
Carmichael, of this city, and G. E. Carmichael who lives in California. 
The daughter was here for the funeral but the son in California was unable
to be here.
Interment was made in the Fairlawn cemetery, with Grubitz and Son
directors, in charge.
(5 Dec 1929, Thursday, Erick Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY HANGING.
H. G. Carmichael, 69, committed suicide by hanging, Sunday morning in an
outbuilding on his farm southwest of Elk City.  Financial worries was said
by the wife to have been the cause of the suicide.
Carmichael was a successful farmer and had been living near Elk City for
the past 9 years, having came (sic) to this county from Indiana to make
his home.