Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Robert Wright, 1923
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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WRIGHT, ROBERT
(22 Nov 1923, Sayre Newspaper, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF
Gun Accidently Discharged Results in Death of Robert Wright.
An accident occurred at the farm of Fred Livingston, south of this city,
on Friday evening last which resulted in the death of Robert Wright on
Saturday night.
It seems that the young man had been working on the Livingston farm and
Friday night came in for supper, proceeding to hang up his hat and at the
same time started to hang up a gun, which he had been carrying in the
field.  He let the gun slip from his hand, and in falling the hammer
struck the base board on the wall, discharging the gun.  The ball struck
Wright in the side passing upward and coming out near the shoulder.
Physicians were summoned, and everything possible done for the wounded
man, but he passed away about 24 hours later.
Wright was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wright, of the Delhi section, and 24
years of age, and well known in this city.  Funeral services were held
Sunday with Rev. Stigler of the Baptist church officiating.  Interment was
in the Lone Oak Cemetery.

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