Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Anita and Sara E. Potts, 1927
Friday, 26 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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POTTS, ANITA
POTTS, SARA E. (MRS. JOHN B.)
(24 Feb 1927, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
SUDDEN CAR STOP KILLS SMALL GIRL.
A sad accident occurred Northwest of Texola Monday evening about 7
o'clock.  Mr. Wallace Potts was called to Clinton to the bedside of his
mother who was not expected to live.  Mrs. Potts and the 2 children were
driving to her sisters, Mrs. Whitehead, to spend the night, after her
lights had gone out she hit a post, hurling her little daughter, Anita,
four years old, through the windshield, cutting her throat.  She died
instantly.  Dr. Stagner was called to Mrs. Potts, who was prostrated with
grief.  Mr. Potts was called back home that night, and received word
immediately after he returned that his mother had passed away.  Both
bodies were carried to Texola Wednesday where funeral services were
conducted by Rev. Hutchinson of Erick, and interment in the Texola
Cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. Potts have the sympathy of all in this their sad
bereavement.
(Census, 1920, Oklahoma, Beckham Co, Texola Twp, ED 17, pg 9A, #102/102
(T625-1451):
John B. Potts, age 58, b Il; fb Ky; mb Tn; farmer;
Sara E., age 56, b Il; f/m b Ky;
James H., son, age 31, b Il; f/m b Il; farmer;
Fletcher, son, age 17, b Ar; f/m b Il.)

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