Original Choctaw Enrollee #13918
Birth Date from his WWI Registration Card and SS Applic/Claims form
Wilson and Susan Hampton married on Jan 6, 1904
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OBITUARY
Funeral services were set for Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Church of Christ here for Wilson Locke, 69, who died Saturday at Johnson Hospital. Leon Savage, local minister, was to officiate, Coffey Funeral Home having charge of interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Since suffering a stroke four weeks ago, Mr. Locke had been a patient in a Durant hospital., but had returned home, where he was reported as improving. He suffered a second stroke at noon Saturday and died at 5:30 pm.
He was born Feb 22, 1876, near the old water mill in the vicinity of Valliant. His father, the late Dr. Ben F. Locke, practiced medicine there after coming to Indian Territory from Tennessee in 1875.
After attending public schools, Locke attended Jones and old Spencer Academies before he married Miss Susan Hampton. They lived near Messer before coming to Hugo.
After having worked on the Navajo reservation near Gallup, NM, Locke took up wood carving as a hobby and for a time, under the WPA, had charge of wood carving classes in the project's recreational program here. His totem poles attracted wide attention. Locke was interested in Choctaw tribal affairs, was an ardent Democrat and belonged to the Masonic lodge here.
Besides his wife, these children survive:
Mrs. (Crystal) Virgie Darter, Ozark, AR
Mrs. (Mary Jane) Fred Parker, Lubbock, TX
Mrs. (Octavia) Howard Grimes, Hugo
Miss Ernestine Locke, Hugo
Vernon Locke, Hugo
Frank Benjamin Locke, Hugo
Woodrow James Locke, Wilburton, OK
Eldridge Allen Locke, US Naval Base at Norman, OK
Edward Russell Locke, US Army, Santa Barbara, CA
These children pre-deceased him:
Thurman Locke
Victor Locke (1916-1933)
Alma Fern Locke (1926-1927)
Three sisters:
Mrs. John Bennett (Mary Jane), Hugo
Mrs. Brooks Griffin (Susan), Hugo
Mrs. J. J. Nelson (Josie), Santa Fe, NM
And a brother:
Marion F. Locke, Hugo Indian Agency