Latimer County, Oklahoma
Obituaries and Notices of Death

E. T. Sorrells M’Alester, May 6. – Former State Senator E. T. Sorrells of Le Flore county died yesterday in Texas, according to reports reaching former friends here today. Senator Sorrells was a member of the Oklahoma constitutional convention.   Little is known regarding the circumstances of his death. A telegram to his friends at Wilburton announced that the body is being sent from some point in the Breckenridge oil field district to Wilburton for burial.   Sorrells was well known in McAlester. He was formerly associated with the late J. J. McAlester in business. (Tulsa World (7 May 1922) transcribed by FoFG MZ)   Alice Fleming McAlester, Okla., Feb. 7. – Alice Fleming, superintendent of schools of Latimer county, was burned to death by a fire which destroyed the home of Amos Given in Wilburton early Tuesday morning. The fire originated from a stove which had been allowed to burn with the drafts open. Six other persons in the house escaped.   Miss Fleming was 48 years of age and was widely known in educational circles. She was an instructor in the Armstrong and Jones Indian academies several years and when Oklahoma attained statehood she was elected to the position she held when she died.   Miss Fleming was a member of one of the oldest families in Arkansas. (Daily Oklahoman (8 Feb. 1911) transcribed by FoFG MZ)   CAPTAIN WILLIAM GRAHAM BAIRD Captain William Graham Baird, Latimer County pioneer and oldest citizen in residence as well as years, the first merchant and first Post Master of Wilburton passed to his eternal reward at his home in Wilburton, Sunday July 19, at 10:30 P. M., following an illness of two weeks. His name is written in the history of this town and county and the Choctaw Nation. We cannot pay too great a tribute to those pioneers, who blazed the way for our civilization and made the history of our great commonwealth. Their usefulness and moral influence shall last through the ages. "A moral man, of moral worth, stands peerless among the power of Earth." Such was our esteemed friend. The entire community bowed in sorrow and did reverence to his name. The funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock at the Presbyterian Church, in the presence of a large number of friends, many of which could not gain entrance into the church. The Reverend J. Y. Bryce of Oklahoma City, former pastor of the Methodist Church of Wilburton, officiated. [Read rest of biography] (Source: "Chronicles of Oklahoma", Volume 4, No. 3, September, 1926, Page 286 - Submitted by Linda Craig)