Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

BUTTS

BUTTS – Died, at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 28, 1908, J. Tracey Butts, son of M.H. Butts, manager of the Long-Bell lumber company in this city. Tracey was about 17 years of age and resided with his father in the Mrs. Rose property on West Blackwell avenue. Last November while attending school at Enid he was taken sick with typhoid fever and was taken to the hospital at Wolfield for treatment. After it was thought he had fully recovered, he was taken down with pneumonia and after a two months siege recovered sufficiently to come home and shortly after suffered a relapse from which he never recovered; the diseased condition of his kidneys caused by the fever, being the immediate cause of his death. Just growing into young manhood and possessing all of the sterling qualities that promised to bud forth into noble manhood he had become a loved companion to his father, and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. He was a member of the Christian church, and his funeral was conducted on Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church, by Rev. Z.A. Harris, a former pastor of the Christian church, at this place. The burial was at the Blackwell cemetery, by the side of Mrs. Butts, who died here in December, 1902. The pall bearers were Wellard and Harry Gearhardt, Glen Williamson, C.H. McMullan Jr., Fred Robertson and Rolla Shideler. Besides the father, the young man, left a sister aged about 15 and a brother, aged about 6 years, to mourn his loss. The many friends of the family deeply sympathize with them in their affliction.