Obit of Guthrie, Mrs. Y.J. - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 23 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.html ========================================================================== Surnames: Guthrie, Minatre Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6373 Mrs. Y.J. Guthrie, living northeast of Strong City, met the sad misfortune of being caught out in the snow storm, and frozen to death on Christmas eve night. Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie lived alone, as their children are all grown and doing for themselves. Mr. Guthrie had been away from home at work, and was due to return on Christmas eve. Mrs. Guthrie had gone to spend the day withed the family of A.J. Minatre, their neighbors. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Guthrie saw her husband coming home on foot expecting to get there about the same time her husband did. Mr. Guthrie was riding one horse and leading another. He did not see his wife and before he reached homed he rode into a deep snow drift in a draw and his horse could not get out. After working for a time with his horses in trying to get them out, he went to the house and got a spade and returned to shovel the snow from the horses; but was then getting dark and the horses were in so deep, and the snow was drifting so badly that it was impossible to get them out. He therefore dug the snow away from his horses the best he could and wrapped them up in quilts and wagon sheets until the next day when they were taken out all right. Mr. Guthrie then went to the house. He found the fire burning and the lamp lighted. He looked for his wife but could not find her. He then searched the place, going to the lots and barn, calling her and waving his lantern, but could raise her nowhere. From the fire and the light at the house he was certain that she had been there recently. Mr. Guthrie then spent most of the night in making a futile search for his wife, through the cold drifting snow and bitting north wind. The frozen body of Mrs. Guthrie was found the next morning about 200 yards from her home, lying quietly upon the snow with a smile upon her face. From the general appearances, it is thought that Mrs. Guthrie reached home in the evening about dark, and while her husband was trying to get his horses out of the snow, that she built up the fire, lighted the lamp, and later started to meet her husband; and that while so doing she became fatigued and fell in the snow, being too cold and numb to get up again. The snow was about knee deep where she lay and there was no sign of any struggle or effort she had made to arise. She leaves her husband and three children to mourn her loss. Her untimely death came as a shock to the entire community. Strong Cty Herald, Strong City, OK 26-Sep-1918 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html