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From: Gen <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] SMITH / LAURENCE or LAWRENCE (Izard) / MASON andBAGWELL (Baxter)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:11:23 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <256721.69606.qm@web83808.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Oh my goodness, what a way to go???? He must have been either very depressed, or very disturbed, to have selected that way to die. Poor man, and even poorer family.
God rest their souls & give them peace.
gen

--- On Tue, 2/1/11, PEGGY TRUESDELL <> wrote:

> From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
> Subject: [ARIZARD] SMITH / LAURENCE or LAWRENCE (Izard) / MASON and BAGWELL (Baxter)
> To:
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 9:31 PM
> Working on BAGWELL records and want
> to know if anyone is related to Andrew
> Jackson SMITH (1870, Melbourne, Izard - 1944, Broken Arrow,
> Tulsa, OK) and wife
> Margaret Ellen LAURENCE [LAWRENCE ?] (1873 -1928) ??  They
> are in 1900 and 1910
> census at Newburg, Izard, AR.  Haven't pursued information
> on where they were
> buried.
>
> Their daughter Ora Ethel SMITH (b. 1895, Izard Co., AR - d.
> 1941, Tulsa Co., OK)
> married William Roy BAGWELL (b. 1889, Baxter Co., AR - d.
> 1934 near Broken
> Arrow, Tulsa Co., OK), son of John Madison BAGWELL (b.
> 1860, AR - d. 1941, near
> Broken Arrow, Tulsa Co., OK) and Mariah Josephine "Ida"
> MASON (b. 1869, Fulton
> Co., AR - d. 1946 near Broken Arrow, Tulsa Co., OK).
>
> My family knew the BAGWELLs in Baxter County before they
> migrated to Broken
> Arrow, OK, and we lived about one mile (as the crow files)
> from them.  I
> discovered today that the above Ora Ethel {SMITH} BAGWELL
> may well have been the
> first person I knew as a child who died.
>
> My Grandmother KING often took me with her on her visits to
> the BAGWELL home. 
> Ora had an automobile accident in 1941 in Tulsa at 21st
> & Garnett that resulted
> in her death.  I was about four when she died and quite
> impressionable and well
> remember the somber mood and that they told her young
> grandchildren she "was in
> heaven."  The names of Ora's children, who were grown or
> almost grown when she
> died, have always been familiar to me because they
> were friends and / or in
> school with my older siblings.
>
> AND, I verified today that it was Ora's husband William
> Roy BAGWELL who
> committed suicide in 1934 by drinking carbolic acid.  Ora
> Ethel and William Roy
> BAGWELL, and most of the BAGWELL family, are buried at
> Park Grove Cemetery in
> Broken Arrow.
>
> If you're connected and want further information, I have
> dates, etc.
>
> Peggy
>
> Peggy {KING} TRUESDELL
>
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