Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Owen Paul Doyle, 1928
10 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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DOYLE, OWEN PAUL
(27 Sep 1928, Thursday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Brother of Local Man Fumes Victim.
O. P. Doyle, age 39, brother-in-law of Joe Nester, who lives southeast of
town, was killed by gas fumes at his apartment, 4468 Lake Park Ave,
Chicago, two weeks ago.
Death was alleged to have came (sic) about by cyanide of pottassium (sic)
fumes arising from gas used by an exterminating company while the building
was being fumigated.
Warning is said to have been given the occupants that the rooms in the
apartment was not to have been entered for hours later, but upon entry of
the rooms by agents of the company doing the fumigating, Mr. Doyle's body
was found.
Doyle was working at his trade of carpenter in the city.  He and his
family had lived in Sayre and on his wife's father's place, the Mulry
farm, located three miles north and a mile west of Sayre.  They were well
known in this community and their friends will be grieved to learn of the
death of Mr. Doyle.
(Research:  Illinois State Death Index: 1916-1950: Chicago, Cook County:
Owen P. Doyle, Jr., certificate #6029565; date of death: 5 Sep 1928.
WWI Draft Registration Cards: 1917-1918: Illinois, Cook county, Chicago:
Owen Paul Doyle, address: 4457 Oakwood?, Chicago, Illinois; born 28 Oct
1889, at Plankington, SD; occupation: Carpenter for Thos. Mulry, 1213 E.
447th, Chicago; dependents: wife & child; physical description: medium
height and build; blue eyes & brown hair; signed Owen Paul Doyle, 5 June
1917.)

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