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EDWIN THEODORE SORRELLS, born near Hartford in Sebastian County, Arkansas, October 30, 1854, died May 4, 1922, and buried at Wilburton, Oklahoma, son of George Washington Sorrels and his wife Charlotte Smedley Sorrels. He was educated in the common schools of the vicinity in which he was born and where he resided until March 9, 1879, when he married Rachel Bloodworth at Hartford on March 9, 1879, and then removed to the Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory locating near Cullichaha on the Poteau River, a few miles east of Wister where he engaged in farming and stock raising on a limited scale for a number of years and continued to reside in what is now LeFlore County until the erection of the State of Oklahoma. In 1906 he resided at Milton in what is now said county and was elected as a delegate from the 92nd District to the Constitutional Convention, serving on the following committees: Labor and Arbitration, Geological Survey, Public Health, Sanitation, Public Debt and Public Works. He was a careful, thoughtful safe member. At the election in September, 1907, at which time the constitution was ratified, he was elected to the state senate from the counties of LeFlore and Latimer and in 1910 was reelected. In 1914 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination as Lieutenant Governor but was defeated for the nomination. In 1916 having removed to Wilburton he was elected as a county commissoner for Latimer County and reelected in 1918, serving two terms, at the expiration of which term he retired on account of failing health.
He left surviving in addition to his widow the following children:Mrs. Charlotte Cox, of Tulsa, Okla., Mrs. Julia A. Coleman, of Ada, Okla., James Washington Sorrels, of Breckenridge, Texas, Miss Esther E. Sorrels, of Ada, Okla., and William Frederick Sorrels, of Breckenridge, Texas. He was a Royal Arch Mason, Odd Fellow and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a democrat. He belonged to the sturdy stock of pioneers that have contributed to the development of this country.
[Source: Oklahoma Chronicles Volume 7 #3 September 1929 pages 348-349 - Submitted by Linda Craig]