Obit of Barbee, Vera Mae - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 2 Oct 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: Barbee Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6363 Vera Mae Barbee died at the Tisdal Hospital Elk City, Oklahoma, last Monday afternoon, June 16, 1924 age 8 months and 21 days. Vera Mae was the youngest child of Henry E. and Jennie C. Barbee, living eight miles northwest of Rankin. Besides the parents there are three sisters and one brother to mourn the death of their baby. She was sick about one day, and on the Sabbath they noticed her sick and thought she would be well by morning; but instead she was worse, and they took her to Dr. Cary of Rankin who saw how seriouss her sickness was, and called Dr. Payne of Durham, in congulation; and they soon started the forty-fiv miles drive to Elk City to operate on her for locked bowel, but she died within twenty minutes after arriving at the hopsital. The funeral was the next day at 11 a.m. at the Rankin Church, the pastor J.M. Vines preaching the sermon, and burial in the Rankin Cemetery (Now White Rose). Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 19-Jun-1924 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html