Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Cora Phelam, 1923
Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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PHELAM, CORA
(18 Jan 1923, Thursday, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
NIECE KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Mrs. M. L. Melvin of Woodward, but formerly of Elk City, passed through
here Tuesday en route to Oklahoma City, having been called there because
of the death of her niece, Miss Cora Phelan (sic), one of the teachers
killed in an auto accident there by the northbound Santa Fe train while
attempting to cross the tracks at South Fifty-first street in a Ford
automobile.  Another lady and a boy was killed and two other young ladies
seriously injured.
(Census, 1920, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City Wd 2, ED 138, pg 11B,
#134/247 (T625-1474):
Margaret Phelam, age 53, b Mo; f/m b Ireland;
Cora M. Phelam, daughter, age 30, b Mo; fb NY; mb Mo; Teacher - Public
Schools;
Edward E. Phelam, son, age 28, b Mo; fb NY; mb Mo; Repairman - Telephone Co.)

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