Obit of Wilson, R.C. - 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.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Wildon, Gebhart Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6296 R.C. Wilson, A Young Man Twenty Eight Years Old Found Dead Sunday Evening HANGS SELF AT BRO'S HOME No Cause Was Found For Rash Act At Inquest By Justice Crane of Hammon R.C. Wilson, a young man 28 years of age was found dead at his brother's home two miles east of Union Center school house last Sunday about sundown. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, brother of the deceased spent the day visting, returning home about sundown. When they went to the house they found R.C. Wilson hanging to a two-by-four in the doorway. Officers were notified and an inquest was held by W.F. Crane, justice of the peace of Hammon acting as coroner. The information received at the inquest by officials revealed that R.C. Wilson and his brother made a crop in the Union Center community in 1929, and that R.C. Wilson had been living for a short time with his father-in- law, Mr. Gebhartt who resides two miles north of Strong City on the A.A. Hitchcock farm. Sunday morning about 10 o'clock Wilson left the Gebhart home to walk to the home of his brother to see about some cotton bales on the farm where he had cropped the past year, a distance of about eight miles. He appeared cheerful that morning at the Gebhart home and also a neighbors where he stopped in the Union Center community and no reason can be found that would justify such a rash act. Those who were present at the inquest say that his hat was on the bed in thed half dugout, his shoes were shined, his hair combed and in fact his person was all well groomedd. A rope was tied around a 2x4 over the door and a double half-hitch was about his neck, a chair stood just behind the body and the body was suspended to the rope, his legs were crowded under the body with the feet on the concrete floor. It is said that if he had stood upright the rope around his neck would have been loose. It is hard to understand how a man could have hanged himself on a loose rope. The only explanation is that he probably stood in the chair until he had choked himself to unconsiciusious and then fell from the chair. Young Wilson was married to Miss Gebhart last March, and so far as could be learned nothing had happened to mar their happiness. The body was shipped to Eldorado, Oklahoma for burial, Monday morning where his relatives live. Hammon Advocate, Hammon, OK 20-Jan-1930 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html