Volume 6 , Issue 6

Obits for Lookout, Oklahoma...

"Your Lookout site prompts this message. I just found it while looking for the burial place of Walter Hackney. THE WESTERN STAR, 15 October 1909 Obituary of WALTER HACKNEY -- Walter Hackney came to this city last week for treatment. His ailment was a complication of liver and stomach trouble and his condition was pronounced critical from the first. He grew worse and on Sunday night, he died at the former Nokes home, in the northeastern part of town where he was staying.....
br> I also found these Obits for Lookout on the KsGenWeb site...
THE WESTERN STAR, 14 February 1913 Obituary of ENOCH GEORGE CASTLE -- ENOCH G.
CASTLE DIES at HIS HOME NEAR LOOKOUT... Enoch G. Castle died on Thursday evening of last week, February 6, 1913, at his home three miles north of Lookout, Okla., after an illness of about 3 months, during which time he was a sufferer from acute bronchitis.....
br> THE WESTERN STAR, 11 March 1921 Obituary of ROSS COOPER ROSS -- COOPER PASSES AWAY... Succumbed to Pneumonia in a Dodge City Hospital Early Tuesday Morning. After a brief illness, resulting from pneumonia, Ross Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Cooper of this city, died in the Pine Hospital in Dodge City, Kans., at 7:45 a.m., on last Tuesday, March 8, 1921, aged 22 years and 17 days.....

THE WESTERN STAR, 6 December 1918 Marriage of T. E. HODGSON & ELLA R. BARTON Hodgson - Barton -- T. E. Hodgson and Mrs. Ella R. Barton, both of the neighborhood of Lookout,
came to Coldwater on Monday, December 2, and were united in marriage by Probate Judge Cosby....

THE WESTERN STAR, 11 June 1909 Obituary of LUTHER H. NUTTER -- Luther H. Nutter was born in Wyandotte county, Ohio, May 14, 1846, and moved with his parents to Decatur county, Iowa. From there he moved to Davis county, Missouri. Several years later, he was married to Maggie Cline on July 3, 1872, when he moved to Harrison county, Missouri, where he lived 22 years. Then with his family he moved to Harper county, Kansas, where he resided for a number of years.....

THE WESTERN STAR, 17 April 1908 Obituary of FLOYD ARLO OSBOURN -- Floyd Arlo
Osbourn was born near Mayday, Riley co., Kans., on June 6, 1890, and died at 8a.m. on Friday, April 10, 1908, at the home of his father, N. M. Osbourn, near Lookout, Okla.....

THE WESTERN STAR, 26 February 1943 Obituary of ANTON KURZ DEATH OF ANTON KURZ -- Anton Kurz, who had lived near Lookout, Okla., for about 44 years, died in the Wichita hospital Thursday afternoon, February 18, 1943, as noted in the Star last week. ....

THE WESTERN STAR, 30 November 1917 Obituary of JOHN JASPER ELDER -- Sad Death of
John Elder... John Jasper Elder, aged 20 years, 4 months and 18 days, and son of Mrs. Cora Elder, died on last Friday at his home in Coy, as the result of injuries received by being thrown from a mile which he was riding. John was working for W. G. Reed, whose home is 1 1/2 miles west of Coy....

The above material is from KsGenWeb. I am building a site about Comanche County, Ks, at RootsWeb. I just searched the site for "Lookout" and found it mentioned in a story my dad wrote... What we called the Salt Plains was at a bend in the North Canadian River south of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This river had a very high salt content. I don't know how deep the salt deposit was, but I know that at some points along the edge it was 12" to 18" deep. I don't remember how long the trip took in a wagon, but it was about 60 miles south of Coldwater so it had to take several days to make the round trip. Later, when Dad got a Model-A Ford truck, I went with him several times and going to the Salt Plains and back was a full day's trip. We went through Coldwater, then Lookout, across Highway 64 and then to the river. My first trip there I remember seeing the hood and stack of a steam engine that was sinking in the quicksand or quicksalt. It had been used in some way to work the salt deposit, I suppose, but I don't know how it was used. I recall being told that the men working with it had tried to save it when it started sinking by pulling on it with another steam engine but that they were in danger of losing the second one the same way as the first one so they abandoned the first one. Over the next 15 or 20 years, I know that the hood and stack that were visible only sank 2 or 3 more feet, and that could have been from the rust eating the metal.

If you use the Search engine on my site to search for Coy, you'll find 6 pages which mention residents of Coy, Ok. You might also be interested in the old maps which show portions of Woods County, Ok, here: kscomanc/hwy160.html -- kscomanc/hwy160_1934map.html. Another page of my site pertains to Two Pioneer Settlers of Woods County, OK, Will & Hattie Wimmer... After Hattie and Bill were married, they lived in a sod house in Comanche County until they came to Oklahoma when the Cherokee Strip was opened for settlement. They made the race for land and staked a claim 1 1/2 miles south of the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Their daughter, Lillian Pearl, was two years old at the time. The small family lived in a hillside dugout until a one room frame house could be built. The dugout served as a root cellar and storage place after the family moved into the new house.

The WWI Casualties page mentions two residents of Woods County who were "claimed" and honored as local citizens in newspaper articles: Guy Schrock and Eugene W. Wares. And, finally, here is another page you may find of interest... digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v014/v014p360.html. I've enjoyed looking at your site and have linked to it from my Links page." -- Jerry Ferrin   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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