Body Found In Deep Creek 1903

Body Found In Deep Creek 1903. . . . On a late fall afternoon in 1903, a stranger with a new wagon, fine team and money (something the local people had little of) arrived at the store in Craig located in the NW/4 of section 24 T19n R10W. He wore nice, but foreign clothes, and spoke of a friend he was to meet. Less than a week later, the stranger was gone. . . Three or four days later, John Haworth George Cobb and Frank De Long found the body. while duck hunting near the mouth of deep creek. located in the NE/4 of section 20 T20N R10W. The body was weighted with the cornerstone from the Harry Slemmer Farm located in the SW/4 of section 26 T20N R10-W and was tied with the well rope from the John L. Felder property located in the NE/4 of section 10 T19 R10W . . The body was viewed by many local people prior to burial behind Collins Cemetery located in the NW/4 of section 10 T19N R10UWIM . . In 1935, when the cemetery was enlarged, the grave was within the cemetery. The grave was marked with a concrete block made by the cemetery board John Haworth, Earl Baker, B.W. McClung, Bryan Emmons, and Henry Fielder. . . No trace of the wagon, horses or money were found. . . "He must have met his friend." . This historical marker was erected in 1998. It is in Okeene in Blaine County Oklahoma