Obit for J.A. Overstreet -  Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source:  KINGFISHER WEEKLY FREE PRESS, May 27, 1926.


DR. OVERSTREET PASSES AWAY.


Dr. J.A. OVERSTREET died at his home in Kingfisher, at 10 o'clock this
morning.  The doctor had been ailing for some time, but his death came
as a sudden shock to the family and the community.  He is the last of
the physicians who came to Kingfisher in '89.  Funeral services will
be held at the home next Sunday.

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Source:  KINGFISHER WEEKLY FREE PRESS, Thursday, June 3, 1926.


PASSING OF AN '89ER.


FUNERAL OF DR. J. A. OVERSTREET DECORATION DAY.

Prominent in Medical Circles Since '89 - Came to Oklahoma Prior to
Opening.

Joseph Addison OVERSTREET was born in Georgetown, Texas, May 8, 1859,
died at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, May 27, 1926, age 67 years, 19 days.

Doctor OVERSTREET attended Medical College in Kansas City, Chicago,
and Bellevue, Hospital, New York from which institutions he received
his medical degrees.

After graduating from Bellevue Hospital in 1883, he practiced medicine
in Emporia, Coldwater and Goddard, Kansas, until 1888, when he moved
to Beaver county, then a part of No Man's Land.  At the opening of
Oklahoma on April 22, 1889, he came to Kingfisher, and established an
office and here he continued to minister to the wants of the sick
until his death.  He was the last of the '89er physicians in
Kingfisher to give up his practice.

He married Miss Ella POYGENBERG in Columbus, Ohio, October 1 [or 4],
1892, who survives him.

He was the son of Rev. and Mrs. R.M. OVERSTREET, a Presbyterian
minister.

Of his immediate relatives there survive him one brother, Jesse C.
OVERSTREET, Anadarko, Okla.;  three sisters, May OVERSTREET, Beaver,
Okla.;  Mrs. Bruce L. KEENAN, Talequah, Okla.;  Mrs. Frank MacLENNON,
Topeka, Kansas;  Mrs. Dr. John M. PARRINGTON, Emporia, Kansas.

Funeral services were held at the family home Sunday, May 30, at 4:30
p.m., conducted bv Rev. R.T. NUNN, pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
before a large concourse of sorrowing friends and neighbors from all
parts of the county, and amid an immense bower of flowers.

Music was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Tom MYERS and Mr. and Mrs. Jona
RUTH.

Pall bearers were:  B.J. CONLEY, Geo. E. MOORE, C.W. SMITH, F.L.
BOYNTON, E.U. SLOAN, W.A. MITCHELL.

Honorary pall bearers:  J.M. SPEICE, B.C. BRIGHAM, Geo. L. BOWMAN,
J.S. PATRICK, Geo. NEWER, Dr. C.W. FISK, Dr. F. SCOTT, E.D. BROWNLEE,
Earl WALTON, J.E. LARRABEE.

The remains were laid to rest in Kingfisher cemetery by the side of
the Doctor's brother and Mrs. OVERSTREET's mother.

Those present from out-of-town were:  Mrs. Frank P. MacLENNON, Topeka,
Kan.;  May OVERSTREET, Beaver, Okla.;  Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C.
OVERSTREET, Anadarko, Okla.;  Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. KEENAN, Tahlequah,
Okla.;  Mr. and Mrs. J.E. LARRABEE, Hitchcock, Okla.

Doctor OVERSTREET was a man of strong personality and inspired the
confidence of all with whom he came in contact in either a business or
professional way.  There is hardly an old-timer in Kingfisher to whose
family he has not ministered.  About a year ago he was presented a
25-year service button by the Rock Island Surgical Association for his
25 years continuous service as physician for the company.  He helped
organize this association more than 25 years ago, and never missed a
meeting of the Association since its organization.