Beckham County, OK - Deaths: A. R. Suggs, 1927
Monday, 15 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SUGGS, A. R.
(4 Aug 1927, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
A KILLING NEAR ELK CITY TUESDAY NIGHT
Two Families Living on the Hoard Farm Indulge in a Free-For-All Fight, and
Argile Jones Shot and Killed A. R. Suggs When He Reached For a Gun.
Beckham county seems to be having an epidemic of shooting affairs.  Two
weeks ago young Turnels was killed north of this city; one week ago
Sheriff Green killed one escaping prisoner near Berlin and wounded two
others, and Tuesday night a shooting affair near Elk City resulted in the
death of A. R. Suggs.
This last affair seems to have been a family row with the shooting as a
climax.  It seems that A. R. Suggs and Argile Jones lived in the same
house on the Hoard farm, five miles southwest of Elk City, and that there
had been trouble over possession of the house, resulting in a court order
for Suggs to vacate within a specific time.
Tuesday the two families seem to have indulged in a free-for-all fight
over the garden and a flock of chickens, the women as well as the men
taking a hand.  Lee Jones, a brother of Argile, was also present and had a
hand in the melee, and the testimony at hand is conflicting, with the
result that Lee has also been placed under arrest.
(4 Aug 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A. R. Suggs was born in Corley, Arkansas, September 15, 1889, and died
near Elk City, August 2, 1927, age 37 years, 10 months and 17 days.
He moved to Oklahoma from Arkansas August 24, 1926, where he resided until
the time of his death.  He leaves to mourn his going a wife and four
children.
Funeral arrangements will be decided later after the arrival of relatives.
(18 Aug 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A. R. Suggs was born September 15, 1889 and passed away August 2, 1927,
leaving a wife and four small children, besides a brother, Edd Suggs of
Paris, Arkansas; and one sister, Mrs. Nona Green of Boonville, Arkansas;
also one brother-in-law, Charles Smith, of Paris, Arkansas, and three
nephews and two nieces of Geary, Oklahoma, to mourn his loss.

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