Obit of Thomas Ricker (r260) - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandy Miller 13 Apr 1999 ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ===================================================================== Surnames: Ricker Thomas Ricker The Anadarko Tribune 04-Apr-1902 Suicide at Apache Thomas Ricker of Chickasha shot himself early yesterday morning at the home of his brother-in-law of Apache and died from his self inflicted wounds almost immediately without making any statement of his motives. Ricker has been melancholy for some days and his family feared to leave him alone but he insisted on being alone on his visit to Apache and his friends desiring to do the best thing possible for him gave him his own way. He procured the revolver with which he committed the deed Wednesday afternoon and secreted it. The family of his brother-in-law were sleeping in the next room to his, a partition separating the rooms. At 2 o'clock Thursday morning they were awakened by a shot from Ricker's room and rushing in they found him dying. Ricker had become a paranic on the subject of his illness. Although a large, strong man weighing over 200 lbs., he imagined himself a great sufferer and had dwelt on the idea until it became a form of insanity. Undertaker Brooks went to Apache Thursday morning and embalmed the body and shipped it to Chickasha for burial. Judge Crum who is deputized to act as coroner in Caddo county had a justice of Apache with a coroners jury, sit on the body but the verdict was at once brought in as that of death by suicide. The deceased leaves a wife and child.