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Ed P. Kelly, Deputy U. S. Marshal

KELLY TO BE BURIED AT EL RENO TODAY.

Funeral Services Scheduled At Home at 3 P.M.

October 23, 1932—El Reno, OK—Funeral services for Ed P. Kelly, veteran Oklahoma railroad official who died Friday at Halstead, Kansas, after a linger illness, will be held from the family home here at 3 p.m. Sunday.

            The pioneer was 72 years old. For years he was assistant to the general manager of the Rock Island railroad. Kelly and his family moved to Guthrie in 1889, where he served as chief of police and deputy United States marshal. He later moved to Alva and became clerk of the federal court of the western district.  He was associated with the Rock Island 23 years.

J. F. "Bud" Ledbetter, U. S. Marshal

RETIRED OKLAHOMA PEACE OFFICER DIES          

“Uncle Bud” Ledbetter, 84, Had Battling Record

 July 10, 1937—Muskogee, OK—Funeral services will be held here Saturday afternoon for J. F. “Uncle Bud” Ledbetter, 84 years old, for a half century a battling Oklahoma and Arkansas peace officer, who died Thursday night.

            The services will be held in the Muskogee civic auditorium. Members of the United States marshal’s office and city and county officers will attend in a body.

            “Uncle Bud,” as thousands knew him, retired to a farm near here in 1928 after service since the 1890s as special officer, United States marshal, policeman and police chief in eastern Oklahoma.  He began service as a peace office in the 1880s as an Arkansas deputy sheriff.

Crocket Lee, Deputy U. s. Marshal.

Peace Officer’s Rites Planned

August 26, 1947—McAlester, OK—Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Chaney funeral home for Crockett Lee, 79, retired peace officer.

            Rev. Ben F. Bland, Oklahoma State penitentiary Chaplin, and Rev. Frank A. Grubbs, First Christian church pastor, will officiate.  Interment will be in Oak Hill cemetery.

            Lee, a state resident since territorial days, began his career as a peace officer in 1891 when he was appointed deputy U. S. marshal.  He served for 30 years under various U. S. Marshals.

            About 1907 he took a position as special officer for the M-K-T railway.  In 1907 he was made McAlester police chief.

            After his retirement Lee turned hi attention to stock raising on his farm near Lake McAlester.

            Survivors are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. J. T. Harmon, Amarillo, Texas, and two grandchildren, Capt. Jack Harmon, U. S. Army, stationed in Germany, and Mrs. Billie Lee Shores, Tampa, Florida.