Obit of Gilliam, Jim - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Ruby Adams   <rfadams@valornet.com>   05 Aug 2007
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Car is Fatal to Minco Man

J.M. Gilliam, age 70 years, was instantly killed Sunday afternoon 
when he fell from the car in which he was riding, and broke his neck 
as he struck the hard road.

Gilliam lived on his farm seven miles northwest of Minco. Sunday 
afternoon some men from Oklahoma City had been at his farm ...line 
unreadable... the place, but drove away without giving him their 
address. He turned to his son Floyd who was at the home and said he 
believed he would run across the field and head them off to get the 
address. Floyd said "Wait a minute Dad, and I will take you in the 
car."

They started out, and when about a mile north of Minco, Gilliam's hat 
blew off, and his son admonished him to just remain still and he 
would stop and get the hat, but Mr. Gilliam was nervous and in a 
hurry, thinking htey would be delayed longer he opened the door of 
the car and started to jump out after the hat before Floyd could get 
the car stopped. He fell to the road, striking his head, causing his 
neck to be broken.

Floyd jumped from the car, but his father was dead before he could 
pick him up. The body was taken to Oklahoma City where it was 
prepared for burial. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the 
Baptist Church in Minco. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam formerly lived in the Friend Community but moved 
to a farm northwest of Minco three years ago. He is survived by his 
wife and four children, a son in Oklahoma City, another son at 
Sapulpa and Floyd of near Minco, and a daughter at Lawton.
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