Beckham County, OK - Obits: Florence Carter, 1922
08 Nov 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CARTER, FLORENCE
(18 May 1922, Thursday, Erick Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Big Storm Near Mangum, Okla.
Mrs. W. R. Carter was instantly killed, several persons were more or less
injured and property loss running into thousands of dollars was the roll
of the storm which swept through Greer County, Sunday night.
The Carter home four miles southeast of Mangum was blown into splinters. 
Mrs. Carter was killed, Mr. Carter was badly injured, and their four year
old girl was cut and bruised.  The Carter family had retired when the
storm struck.  Carter had just gotten up to look at the cloud and was in
the act of telling his family they had better go to the dugout when the
house was blown down.  Mr. Carter was hurled through the roof and rendered
unconscious.  When he regained consciousness he found his wife dead with
their year old baby tightly clasped in her arms, uninjured.  Barbara,
their other child four years old was near her mother.  Although Mr. Carter
had several ribs broken, cuts and bruises all over his body and an ugly
wound on his hip where something struck him, he was able to get the body
of his wife and children into the dugout and leaving Barba (sic) with the
body of her mother he took the baby to a house of a neighbor where
assistance was secured and the body of the woman and the little girl were
taken to the home of another neighbor.
A family named Ferguson were all injured when their house blew down.  They
lived in Harmon county, three miles west of Coralea.  Mr. Ferguson had his
hip crushed, and his child's head was crushed.  They were taken to a
hospital at Altus and last reports were that the child was not expected to
live. - Mangum Star.
(Research: Census, 1920, Oklahoma, Greer Co, Quartz Twp, ED 78, pg 4A,
#65/65 (T625-1465):
William R. Carter, age 27, b Al; f/m b Al; farmer; rents property;
Florence Carter, age 24, b Tx; fb La; mb Mo;
Barbra Carter (sic), age 1 yr 3 mos, b Ok; fb Al; mb Tx.
(www.usgenweb.com) Oklahoma, Greer County, Marriage Index 1901-1920:
W. R. Carter married Florence Worthington, 22 Dec 1915, Book 7, pg 348).