Beckham County, OK - Deaths: William Colom Terry, 1929
Friday, 30 January 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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TERRY, WILLIAM COLOM
(5 Sep 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
William Colom Terry was born January 21, 1887, in Alabama, and died at Elk
City, September 4, 1929, at the age of 42 years, 7 months and 5 days. 
Funeral services was held in the Roll cemetery and interment made in the
cemetery at Roll (Silent Home Cemetery, Roger Mills County), Sept 5, with
Gentry-Killough in charge.
(5 Sep 1929, Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Roger Mills Co, OK):
Bert Terry (sic), who lived on what is known as the Chas. Lucas place, 2
miles east and two and one half miles south of Durham, died at the
hospital in Elk City Wednesday evening from injuries received in a
automobile accident two miles east of Durham.
Mr. Terry was alone in the car when the accident occurred.  He drove off
the bridge in some manner, and was caught underneath the car, where he
remained for possibly two hours.  He was found by a young man who was
working about a quarter of a mile from the place of the accident.  The
young man heard the moans of some one and went to the bridge where he
found Mr. Terry pinned underneath the car.  He was about to leave to get
assistance when Mr. F. H. Ogle and others came and he was taken from
underneath the car and hauled to his home in a truck.
When Mr. Terry was found he was unconscious and could not tell how the
accident occurred.  Tuesday he was removed to an Elk City hospital where
he died Wednesday evening from the results of his injuries.

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