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Charles Bartlett Harless
Birth: Mar. 14, 1881Death: Mar. 23, 1947
Burial:
Bellview Cemetery
Beckham County
Oklahoma, USA
Record added: Dec 27 2006
By:
Rita Collvins Mayfield
Charles Bartlett Harless, also known as "Bart" and sometimes
listed as "Bart C. Harless" was born in Travis County TX, the son of Stephen
T. and Melissa Stephenson Harless and grandson of Hiram Harless of Lavaca Co.,
TX. He married Laura Burleson in 1904 in Edwards Co., TX.The following was in
the Elk City Paper, Beckham Co., Oklahoma on March 25, 1937:"Charles Bartlett
HARLESS, farmer who lived two miles east and three south of Elk City, died
Tuesday afternoon about 4:30 at a local hospital from wounds received shortly
before noon Monday.Harless was shot in the abdomen while he and Bill Lewis
were in a fight. Circumstances leading up to the fight were not learned, but
Police Chief Orlin JONES and J. P. Elliott, who were called to the scene, said
that they were told HARLESS had gone to the Lewis farm and an argument
started. Harless told Elliott, while being brought to the hospital in an
ambulance, "The boy shot me". Lewis was taken to the Washita County jail at
Cordell where he was being held pending filing of charges. Mr. Harless had
been a resident of Oklahoma since 1901. He was married in 1904 to Laura
Burleson in Edwards County, Texas. Survivors are his widow, one brother, Brown
Harless, Elk City; and two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Maxey, Shawnee, and Mrs. Ida
Kennedy, Lugert.
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