Obit of English, Dixon (e524) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 8 Oct 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: English, Lyon, Montgomery, Lawson, Braisher, Stoddard, Beauchamp, Carter, Lawrence Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2049 Word was received here early last Monday morning that Dixon English, of Grimes, had passed away in the night. This was sad news to the families of the News-Democrat for he was a specila frined of ours. We met Mr. and Mrs. English as we were on our trip to the claim over fifteen years ago as he was driving the mail from Grimes to Berlin and he passed us a few miles from where we were to make our home. We never forgot the welcome they gave us, and then afterwards we became fast friends, and were often in the home, and a friendship sprung up that has been very dear to us. They were such hospitable people it was a pleasure to be in their home. The two families have went up to Grimes Monday afternoon to attend the funeral of our friend and neighbor. How hard these partings would be had we not the hope that some day we will be able to meet again. The following tribute was furnished by Rev. Arthur Wilson. Dixon Lewis English Mr. English, known as Uncle Dick English, died on the night of August 4, 1916 at his home near Grimes after a long illness. Mr. English, who was of an aristroratic family of the South, was born in Alabama, October 31, 1848. The "young gentleman" as he was classed then, moved to Washington County, Texas, spending his early life there and in Brazos and Fisher Counties, in 1894 he moved to Oklahoma and settled with his wife on the homestead and ranch where he died. The Englis family then were the foremost settlers of that portion of Oklahoma, their nearest neighbor living eight miles away. Truly they were of the frontier and paved the way for the civiliazation which has followed. Theirs too was society as with the poet: "There is a pleasure in the pathless wood" Mr. English was the first man to make an effort for a post-office at Grimes. He with other cattlemen of the early day deserve first credit for establishment of law and order where the wild savage so long meant havoc and destruction to white man's attempts at settlement. None can forget what these early sons of toil have done in primitive Oklahoma, and we owe the greatest debt, which memory now alone can pay. Mr. English was married to Miss Kate M. Lyon March 12, 1871, at Bryan, Texas. She died November 3, 1873. He married Miss Sallie Lyon on April 29, 1874, who still survives him. He leaves five sisters, Mrs. Jennie Montgomery, Mrs. Mollie Lawson, Mrs. Laura Braisher, of Houston, Texas; Mrs. Hortense Stoddard, of Bryan, Texas, and Mrs. Bam Deauchamp, of Fort Worth, Texas, also dear Aunty Mays, and aunt of Mrs. English, who has been a member of his home at Grimes for many years. Mrs. Anna Carter of Longworth, Texas, and Mrs. Josie Lawrence, sisters of Mrs. English. A short funeral service was held at the home at 2:30 p.m. by Rev. A.E. Wilson. The member of the Masonic Order, of Sayre, of which he was a member, then took charge and the interment was made in the Dempsey Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. The Masonic Order performed its ususal burial services after which there was prayer and burial. ========= Surnames: English, Lancaster, Stadard, Montgomery, Lawson, Braisher, Bauchamp Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2442 Mr. Dixon Lewis English known as Uncle Dick English died after a long illness at his home near Grimes, Oklahoma, 3 a.m., August 14, 1916. Mr. English was of an aristorcratic family of the south, born in Alabama, October 31, 1848. The "young gentleman" as he was then called, moved to Washington County, Texas, where he spent his youth later moving to Rogers and Fisher counties. He and his wife came then to the present home place settling in Grimes, Oklahoma, in 1893. They were the first family to settle in that portion of Oklahoma, their nearest neighbor being eight miles away. They were truly forontiersmen paving the way for civilization. Tho lonely, theirs was society, for with the poet: There is a pleasure in the pathless wood. A rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrude, By the deep ocean and its roar. Mr. English was the first man to work in securing the Grimes Post Office with Mr. J.G. Lancaster as postmaster. He with other cattlemen of the early day deserve first credit for the establishment of law and order where the wild savage so long ment havoc and destruction to the white men's settlement. None should forget what these early sons of toil did for primitive Oklahoma, and we now pay our last debt of gratitude to the memory of one, Mr. English. He leaves a wife and five sisters namely: Hautense Stadard, Jennie Montgomery, Mollie Lawson, Laura Braisher and Bam Bauchamp. Three living in Houston, Texas, one at Ft. Smith and one in Bryar, Texas. A short funeral service was held in the home at 2:30 p.m, by Rev. A.e. Wilson and the remains turned over to the Masonic Order and taken to the Dempsey cemetery, Dempsey, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma for enterment. The Order performed its ususal burial service, prayer and dismissed by Rev. Wilson. His many friends extend words of sympathy and comfort to the bereaved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html