Buck Garrett
Paralysis is Fatal to Buck Garrett at his Ardmore Home
May 7, 1929—Ardmoreite--Ardmore, May 6—Buck Garrett, 58 years old, veteran Oklahoma peace officer, died at his home here Monday morning at 6 o’clock. A stroke of paralysis suffered seven weeks ago was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held from the family home Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Garrett’s death came just seven years to a day after his lifelong friend and fellow officer, Bud Ballew, was killed in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Was Pioneer Officer
Born in the hill country of Texas, Garrett elevated himself to a place among picturesque...figures who live and moved on the stage of pioneer Oklahoma to a power in the political...of the southern half of the state.
In more than 40 years carrying a badge of authority, Garrett never killed a man in the line of duty...he made a picturesque figure amid the grim background of...the frontiers. In the heyday of his long career, he was covered with the glamour of the old days.
Garrett was born in Lenville, Texas in 1871, the son of Larkin Garrett, a bartender. There his mother died. In 1880 the Garretts moved to Paris, Texas where he served as a posseman under Capt. J. J. Dickerson, U. S. Marshal for the district.
[The rest of my copy is missing. Basically, Garrett was a deputy US Marshal from Paris from that point until the opening of the Indian Territory Courts when he became a deputy for the Southern I. T. court. In 1893, he married Ida M. Chancellor, the daughter of Deputy US Marshal J. M. Chancellor. They had one son, Raymond. From 1905-1911, Garrett was on the Ardmore Police force and served as Chief. In 1911, he was elected Sheriff of Carter County, Oklahoma, an office he held until 1922.]
GARRETT RITES DRAW THRONG
Many Pioneers Pay Officer Their Final Tribute At Ardmore Tuesday
May 8, 1929—Ardmore—Old-timers from all parts of the southwest were in Ardmore Tuesday to pay their final tribute to their comrade of the pioneer days—Buck Garrett.
Funeral services for Garrett, who had survived one of the most spectacular careers as an early day peace officer to die at his home after a long illness, attracted a huge throng of friends, many of them from out f the state and from others parts of Oklahoma.
Rev. J. F. Young, Baptist minister and long-time friend of Garrett, delivered the funeral sermon.
Honorary bearers included a score of persons who played big parts in the early day history of the southwest and many other pioneer officers, who had at one time or another worked with Garrett in battling desperadoes and outlaws of “wild west” days, also attended the services.
W. E. Gill
Territorial Party Convention Head Is Dead In West
Warren P. Gill, Active in Early Day Politics, Buried in Los Angeles
December 10, 1939--the Oklahoman--Word has been received here of the death Thursday in Los Angeles, California, of Warren P. Gill, 73-year old Oklahoma pioneer who served as chairman of the territorial Democratic convention in 1900.
Born in Eldorado, Kansas, August 23, 1966, Gill made the run into the Cherokee Strip September 16 1893 and homesteaded a claim in Noble County. He played an active part in state politics for more than 20 hears and at one times was a candidate for mayor of Oklahoma City. He was one of Oklahoma's first deputy United States marshals after it became a state. He had been a resident of Los Angeles the last 16 years.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Barbara Stegman gill, and a daughter, Mrs. Weamena Carr.