This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. Caddo Co. OK Newspaper - Anadarko Tribune 1926 Submitted By Sandy Miller ============================================================================= The Anadarko Tribune March 25, 1926 DEATHS STEPHEN B. JONES In Johnson county, Iowa, on the 29th day of August, 1851, Stephen B. Jones was born. While but a small boy his parents moved to Ruio, Neb., and from thence to Oregon, then back to Nebraska. Here Stephen began business as a cattle buyer and traveled for many miles here and there buying much as he could locate and use in his trade. He met Miss Almira Scott of Hiawahta, Kas., won her heart and was united in matrimony on April 18, 1876 and he immediately took her back to his home in Nebraska. In May 1889 they came to Oklahoma during the opening and homesteaded in Canadian county near what was then Rock Island Postoffice. Here he organized their first Sunday School in his own house and superintended it for two years. Here also he helped to organize the first school district in that community. He came from Canadian county to Anadarko twenty years ago and has resided here until his passing into the great unknown on March 11, 1926 after a little more than a month's sickness. To mourn his going he leaves his life long companion, four children-Benjamin K. Jones of Anadarko, Mrs. A.H. White of El Reno, Mrs. C.A. Barrick of Prague, Mrs. Jos. M. Vincent of Chickasha, and one brother, C. B. Jones of Pauls City, Neb., besides 21 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of whom attended the funeral services. During the close of the Civil War, although but 14 years of age, he tried to enlist and was in camp when Lee surrendered. He also fought several battles with Custer, some of them in the Black Hills of the Dakotas and some in Oklahoma, one of which was not far from Anadarko. He would have been in the last fight, but Gen. Custer had sent him back to supply camp, which saved his life. His long and varied life has seen the building of this great commonwealth in which he had a complete share. He was the first sheriff by appointment of Kingfisher county. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Frank W. Beach, pastor of the Christian Church of Anadarko and burial was in the Anadarko Cemetery under the direction of the Gish Funeral Home. Pallbearers were chosen from the membership of the American Legion. ========================================================================== April 1, 1926 B.F. CASSIDY FUNERAL ELD THIS AFTERNOON Benjamin Franklin Cassidy died at his home on North Boundary early Tuesday morning. He had been in poor health for several years. He recently took the flu, which was followed by a paralytic stroke and for a week before his death was unconscious most of the time. Mr. Cassidy was eighty-one years old and had lived in Anadarko since the opening, at which time he bought a lot. He was one of the thinning ranks of the G.A.R. and a man respected and held in high esteem by all who knew him. He was born in a minister's humble home in Shelby county, Kentucky, on January 16, 1845. He was named after the great preacher Benjamin Franklin. In this pioneer home school opporunities were limited, but he was educated in the school of hazardous experience. When 16 years old, he was sworn in as a government scout and dispatch carrier at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky. and served in this position for ten months. At the close of this service he went to Indiana and enlisted in the Indiana Home Guard and remained in this service until the day he enlisted in the U.S. Service at Terra Haude, his county seat on Oct. 1, 1863. He entered as a private of Company D, 11th Regiment, Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Capt. C.A. Goodwin and Col. R.R. Stewart to serve three years during the war. He helped pursue Hood as far as Gravelly Springs, Ala., and crossing the Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss., remaining there until May 12, 1865, when he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and did duty in Missouri and Kansas until ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of being mustered out. He was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind. on May 26, 1865. During the year following the war he met and won Tabitha Pane Mosby Bolin to be his bride on March 11, 1866. To this union six children, five girls and one boy, were born, four of whom proceeded him into the glory land. Soon after his marriage he moved to Missouri and came from there to Anadarko a few days before the opening and purchased one of the first lots sold at auction and built his own home and lived there until his departure on March 31, 1926 at 2 a.m. for this home not built with hands, but eternal in the Heavens. At the age of 20 he gave himself to Christ at the Union Church, five miles southeast of Terra Haute, Ind., and continued a faithful member of his church. On coming to Anadarko he aligned himself with those of like faith and therefore became a charger member of this congregation. He labored in the putting up of the first and second houses of worship, and rejoiced greatly to see the Educational building recently erected. To know Benjamin Franklin Cassidy was to be his friend. He loved everybody. He not only leaves two daughters, Mrs. Eva Buckley of Peru, Ind., who came and tenderly cared for her father, and Mrs. Laura Mosley of Anadarko, and other relatives mourn his going, but a mltitude of friends who will constantly feel the loss of a real friend. Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, with full military honors accorded him on Thursday, April 1st at 2 p.m., Frank W. Beach, officiating. J.H. Farmer Funeral Home will direct the services. ========================================================================== May 13, 1926 JAMES ANDERSON BROOKS James Anderson Brooks was born in Center, Alabama January 7, 1846 and died in Apache, Okla., April 8, 1926 in his 80th year. He was married to Miss Kathering Elizabeth Rhodes December 9, 1867, to which union were born eight sons and two daughters, all of whom are living except two sons and one adopted daughter, Esther Brooks. The family moved from Arkansas to Oklahoma in 1893, in which state they have since resided. When the call was made for troops to preserve the Union, Mr. Brooks responded and served throughout the war. Funeral services were conducted at the grave site by Elder W.A. Burrus, to which were added some verses, "Sleep, Soldier, Sleep" by Judge J.A. Gardner who, together with Dr. J. H. Becler, were Mr. Brooks' only companions in arms who were able to attend the services, which were under the auspices of the Apache Post of the American Legion. As the remains were laid to rest in the quiet city of the dead, a volley was discharged by the firing squad. Taps were sounded by the bugler and all that was mortal, the tongueless silence of dreamless of the aged veteran was consigned to sleep in the sacred from whence he came. He had attained the fullness of age in a life that was useful and sacred by good deeds, and his worth was attested among men by the throng which followed his reamains to the border of the grave. May his rest be sommensurate with his earthly deeds. The Gish Funeral Home had charge of the funeral arrangements.