Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Clyde J. Tucker
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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TUCKER, CLYDE, J.
15 Jun 1905, Erick Newspaper, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
A most deplorable accident occurred Saturday afternoon about six miles
northwest of Erick in which Clyde, the twenty-months-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Tucker, lost his life by drowning.
Owing to the absence of eyewitnesses it is impossible to obtain details of
the accident, but it is presumed the child who was playing on the bank of
Turkey creek, a short distance from the house, approached too near the
water's edge and fell in.
The body was discovered in about three feet of water.  An effort was made
to resuscitate the child, but life was extinct before the body was
recovered from the water.
The remains were interred in the Erick cemetery Sunday afternoon.  Funeral
services were conducted at the grave by Rev. L. B. Anderson.

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