McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    J. R. MITCHELL

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::Denison Cemetery--Idabel OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

November 1935

J. R. MITCHELL PASSES AWAY AT TOM THURSDAY

With Rev. Rowe C. Holcomb, pastor of the First Baptist church of Idabel
officiating, funeral services were held from the Chappell Funeral Home at
two o'clock Friday afternoon for J. R. Mitchell, 65, of Tom, who died
Thursday afternoon.  Burial followed in Denison cemetery.

Mr. Mitchell had been a resident of the Tom community for the past ten
years and had lived in McCurtain county since 1917.  He was widely known
in the county and became known last year as "the walking candidate," 
because of his unusual campaign for public weigher.

He canvassed the county three times on foot and traversed many thousands
of miles in the campaign.  It is said that Mitchell held the record for 
walking in the state of Oklahoma.

Besides his immediate family and relatives Mr. Mitchell leaves a large
host of friends to mourn his passing.

Surviving him are, his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Vallie Cabiness of
Lewisville, Ark., and Mrs. J.H. Roberty of Sherman, Texas; two sons, John
of Tom, and Charles of Sherman, Texas; five brothers, Morgan, Terrell,
Texas; Buck, Pete, Hall and George of Texarkana; four sisters, Mrs. L.
Kyles, Terrell, Texas; Mrs. Kate Teague, Texarkana; Mrs. Alice Lyle,
Lamesa, Texas, and Mrs. Dora Compton, Texarkana.

The youngest son, Woodrow, died in September.
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