Obit of Adams child - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 30 May 2005 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Adams Originally Posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5949 FIND SKELTON OF ADAMS CHILD Child Drowned and Body Washed Away In Flood on Night of April 3, 1934 FOUND IN BED OF THE RIVER Jimmie Simmonss of Sayre Found Skull. Whiled Fishing in River North of Hammon. The evening of one of the greatest tragedies of Oklahoma, and, thre greatest in the history of Roger Mills County was brought again to the minds of the people of this county last week when the skeleton of one of the victims of the Washita flood was found last Friday morning. Mr. Jimmie Simmons of Sayre, vacationing near Hammon, was fishing in the Washita river when he observed what he thought was a human skull and upon close observation found it to be the skull of a small child. Recalling that the body of one of the Adams childrens had not been found, those acquainted with the details immediately notified Mr. Arthur Adams of Cheyenne who went to the scene and identified the skull as that of his eight-year old child. He was able to identify it by the fact that two teeth were gone, and that he had pulled two teeth for this child the day before the flood. The remains were intered in the Red Hill cemetery near Hammon by the side of other members of the family. The skull was found just west of the Washita bridge on Highway 34 north of Hammon. There were ten members of the Adams family residing in the Washita valley west of Hammon when the flood of April 3, 1934 occured and the mother and six children were drowned, leaving only the father and two children. The bodies of the mother and four children were found immediately. A short time later the body of the fifth child was found, and now the skull of the sixth and last of the Adams children drowned has been found. This makes a total of fifteen bodies or skeletons recovered of the 17 who lost their lives on the tragic night of April 3, 1934, when a 12 inch rain in the vicinity of Cheyenne caused the Washita river to be made into a mighty river, sweeping everything in the valley into its mighty current, causing a loss of a half-million dollars in livestock, feed and homes, in Roger Mills county alone. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 2-July-1936 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html