Gravestone photos ©Gia Hays.
Charles, like his namesake grandfather and father before him, worked in oil. Charles' First World War Draft Registration proves that Charles married Fannie by Sept 12, 1918, but nothing more is known by the family at this time. They had no children.
They stayed in Oklahoma to work the fields after their documented presence in 1917-1918. The First World War Draft Registrations show Charles and Fannie living in Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma.
The next mention of Charles and Fannie is an AP story filed in Bristow, Oklahoma on August 25th and printed in the Waco News-Tribune on page 3 of the August 26, 1923 paper. "Oklahoma Woman Kills Self As Husband Dies: Within an hour after her husband had died in a local hospital from injuries suffered in an oil field explosion, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin shot and killed herself in her home here early today. McLaughlin was injured Tuesday by parts of drilling machinery blown out of a gas well that had been ignited."
Charles, like his namesake grandfather and father before him, worked in oil. Charles' First World War Draft Registration proves that Charles married Fannie by Sept 12, 1918, but nothing more is known by the family at this time. They had no children.
They stayed in Oklahoma to work the fields after their documented presence in 1917-1918. The First World War Draft Registrations show Charles and Fannie living in Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma.
The next mention of Charles and Fannie is an AP story filed in Bristow, Oklahoma on August 25th and printed in the Waco News-Tribune on page 3 of the August 26, 1923 paper. "Oklahoma Woman Kills Self As Husband Dies: Within an hour after her husband had died in a local hospital from injuries suffered in an oil field explosion, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin shot and killed herself in her home here early today. McLaughlin was injured Tuesday by parts of drilling machinery blown out of a gas well that had been ignited."
Gravestone photos ©Gia Hays.
Charles, like his namesake grandfather and father before him, worked in oil. Charles' First World War Draft Registration proves that Charles married Fannie by Sept 12, 1918, but nothing more is known by the family at this time. They had no children.
They stayed in Oklahoma to work the fields after their documented presence in 1917-1918. The First World War Draft Registrations show Charles and Fannie living in Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma.
The next mention of Charles and Fannie is an AP story filed in Bristow, Oklahoma on August 25th and printed in the Waco News-Tribune on page 3 of the August 26, 1923 paper. "Oklahoma Woman Kills Self As Husband Dies: Within an hour after her husband had died in a local hospital from injuries suffered in an oil field explosion, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin shot and killed herself in her home here early today. McLaughlin was injured Tuesday by parts of drilling machinery blown out of a gas well that had been ignited."
Charles, like his namesake grandfather and father before him, worked in oil. Charles' First World War Draft Registration proves that Charles married Fannie by Sept 12, 1918, but nothing more is known by the family at this time. They had no children.
They stayed in Oklahoma to work the fields after their documented presence in 1917-1918. The First World War Draft Registrations show Charles and Fannie living in Oilton, Creek, Oklahoma.
The next mention of Charles and Fannie is an AP story filed in Bristow, Oklahoma on August 25th and printed in the Waco News-Tribune on page 3 of the August 26, 1923 paper. "Oklahoma Woman Kills Self As Husband Dies: Within an hour after her husband had died in a local hospital from injuries suffered in an oil field explosion, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin shot and killed herself in her home here early today. McLaughlin was injured Tuesday by parts of drilling machinery blown out of a gas well that had been ignited."
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Charles W.
Fannie, his wife
died Aug 25, 1923
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