Beckham County, OK - Deaths: William J. Sunderman, 1922
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SUNDERMAN, WILLIAM J.
(Feb 1922, Sayre Newspaper, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
DESPONDENT MAN SHOOTS SELF
Wm. J. Sunderman, Near Hext, Shot Himself Friday Afternoon.
Wm. J. Sunderman, residing near Hext, has been in very poor health for a
year past, being unable to work the dread tubercolosis having fastened
itself upon him, and physicians handing out no hope for him.
Friday forenoon he secured a target rifle and informed his wife that he
would walk out over the farm and get a couple of rabbits.  When he failed
to return at noon a search started for him, but not until 4:30 was he
found, and then his father and brother found him lying in the ditch along
side the road, with a bullet hole through his forehead.
Officers and doctors were telephoned for from this city, he being still
alive, but unconscious.  He was brought to this city, and at Elk City. 
Neither the Sayre physicians nor those at the hospital were able to locate
the bullet but it was ascertained that it had lodged in the brain.
He lingered until Sunday night, when he passed away.  The remains were
brought to this city, and funeral services held on Monday afternoon. 
Interment was at Doxey-Sayre cemetery.  The bereaved family has the
heartfelt sympathy of all Beckham county in their affliction.
The young man was 30 years of age, married and the father ......
(remainder too dark to read).

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