Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Lucile May Urquhart, 1912
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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URQUHART, LUCILE MAY
(17 Oct 1912, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
(From the Apache Review, 10.)
Little Lucile May, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Urquhart,
was accidentally shot Monday evening by her foster brother, Orris
Urquhart.  The bullet entered her forehead, and penetrated the brain.  She
lived only about thirty minutes after being found.  The boy is twelve
years old.  The victim of the unhappy accident was eleven.  The boy was
crazed with grief and wanted to kill himself also when he saw the result
of his stray shot, but no blame can be attached to him as it was purely
accidental.
Here is how it happened:  The boy started to the pasture to drive up the
cows, taking the rifle with him.  The little girl started with him, but he
told her to go back to the house.  The child, who was of a very
affectionate disposition, threw her arms around the boy's neck and kissed
him, saying "good bye Pete," calling him by his nick name.  Then she
started back to the house.
On the way back with the cows the boy shot at a bird, not thinking of any
one being in range.  Instead of going back to the house she had sat down
on a hog shed to await the return of her playmate.  The shed was about 60
yards from the tree in which the bird was sitting and directly in line
with it.  When the boy came up to the shed he found the little girl lying
on a pile of corn under the hog shed with her brains oozing out through a
hole in her forehead.  He ran to the house screaming and told his parents
what had happened.  The little girl was taken to the house and Dr. Weiser
of Alden was called, but he was out.  Dr. Beucler was then called but went
to Brookheart's, north of Apache, by mistake.  However, no physician could
have done any good, as the child died about thirty minutes after being
found, before either could have reached the Urquhart residence.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the home, conducted by Rev.
Carithers, after which interment was made in the Mission cemetery.
While the child was an adopted child, she was taken by Mr. and Mrs.
Urquhart when she was only six weeks old and was as dear to them as if she
were their own child, and her tragic death has cast a gloom over the
family that will be long in lifting.  The bereaved family have the
sympathy of the entire community.

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