Beckham County, OK - Deaths:  Homer Lee Harris, 1923 
12 Mar 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HARRIS, HOMER LEE
(29 Nov 1923, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Authentic reports reaching us from Elk City today are to the effect that
Sunday afternoon, Homer L. Harris, formerly cashier of the First National
Bank at Cheyenne, and who received two gunshot wounds while hunting with
R. N. Higgins, Jr., on Sunday afternoon, November 18, died in an Elk City
hospital at 8:30 A.M., yesterday morning from the effects of the wounds.
Mr. Harris leaves a wife, who is the daughter of ex-sheriff, Bob Brown of
Roger Mills county.  The body was taken to Cheyenne yesterday and
interment will be made there this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock.
(29 Nov 1923, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DEATH OF HOMER HARRIS.
Homer Harris of Cheyenne, died at a local hospital here Wednesday, as a
result of an accidental gunshot wound while out hunting a week ago. 
Following infection which developed Monday, the arm was removed and the
shock of the operation, together with the loss of blood before he was able
to get medical treatment after the accident, proved fatal.  The body was
taken to Cheyenne for burial.
Homer L. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris, was born in Logan
county, Okla., January 4, 1899, and died November 28, 1923, aged 24 years,
10 months and 24 days.  Having come when a small child to Roger Mills
county, he attended school in Cheyenne where he graduated in 1916.  He was
one of the Khaki Klad, who answered when his country called in World War.
Mrs. Minnie Morton of Elk City and Leland Brown of Amarillo, Texas, attend
the funeral of Mr. Harris in Cheyenne, Thursday.  They are sister and
brother of Mrs. Homer Harris.
(6 Dec 1923, Elk City Newspaper, Beckham Co, OK):
This county has never suffered a greater loss from the passing of one man
than in the death of Homer Harris, cashier of the First National Bank, of
Cheyenne, which occurred at the Tisdal Hospital in Elk City, Wednesday
morning last.  His death was the result of an accidental discharge of an
automatic shot gun, which went off when Harris was in the act of placing
some birds in the rear of the car from his seat by the driver, Robt.
Higgins.  This happened Sunday, November 18th, near Hamburg.  After
holding an artery, Higgins summoned Dr. Carey of Rankin and Dr. Payne of
Durham, who dressed the arm from which the flesh had practically all been
shot, and then hurried the unfortunate man to an Elk City hospital. 
Harris' friends were informed he was rapidly improving until blood poison
developed and the arm was amputated Tuesday in an effort to save his life,
but without avail; the great loss of blood rendered him too weak to stand
the shock.
He leaves to mourn his loss his parents, a brother, Oscar Harris, a
sister, Florence Harris, and his disconsolate bride, to whom he was
married on July 4th, last.  The sympathy of the entire community is
extended to the mourning relatives in their saddest hour.

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