114 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, August 11, 1910

KILLED HIS FATHER

A report has reached this city that Dick Watson, a well-known resident of Hoffman, was shot and killed by his 13-year-old son last Saturday.

The particulars as near as could be ascertained were that Watson came home in an intoxicated condition Saturday evening and began abusing his wife and finally attempting to do her bodily harm. A lad of 13 interceded on behalf of his mother and Watson turned his attention to the boy. Being alarmed for the safety of the family the little hero hurriedly secured a gun and taking aim sent a leaden message to a vital spot, the father dying almost instantly.

The little fellow was arrested and given a hearing but immediately following was released from custody, the verdict being that the boy acted purely in self-defense.

••••• 100 YEARS AGO Checotah Times

Thursday, July 3, 1924

Mrs. Owen Killingsworth Takes Her Own Life Mrs. Owen Killingsworth, wife of a well-known and prominent farmer residing near Brush Hill, took her life about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon by drinking strychnine. No one was at the home at the time she committed the act, she having sent the children to a neighbors. When they returned an hour later, she was dead, they at first thinking she was asleep.

••••• 80 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, January 13, 1944

Cadet J.B. King Critically Injured

Air Cadet J.B. King, former Checotah football player, was seriously injured this week in an accident that killed 28 soldiers, when an army bus in which he was riding to an airfield was struck by a fast train.

Four other soldiers were critically injured in the accident and only one escaped unhurt. The bus was transporting the cadets back to the airfield at the time of the collision.

King had completed all his primary training and would have received his commission in the air corps in a few weeks.

••••• 75 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, July 7, 1949

EUFAULA DAM FUND IS UPPED IN HOUSE BILL

The house public works committee Thursday approved a bill upping the authorization of the Eufaula dam fund from $55 millions to $70 millions.

Seagraves Draws 4-Year Sentence For Murder Try

Bill Seagraves plead guilty in district court this week to charges of attempting to kill his former wife and two children at a farmhouse near Checotah.

Seagraves was put to flight when he went to the home of Mrs. Joe Young, his former wife, with the intention of wiping out her family.

The woman whipped out a six-shooter and the ex-convict broke in the clear and fled.

CITY CLEAN-UP DRIVE TO FIGHT POLIO THREAT

A city-wide cleanup and spray campaign has been launched by Mayor B.J. Koch and members of the council in an effort to prevent an outbreak of infantile paralysis here.

••••• 50 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, August 1, 1974

Highway construction projects announced Highway Commissioner D.K. Swon announced the highway construction projects in District 2 and apparent low bidders as recorded at the Oklahoma Highway Commission bid opening held last Friday in Oklahoma City.

Awarding of contracts to the successful bidders will be made by the Commission at its next regular meeting on Monday, Aug. 5, 1974.

For Mcintosh County these include: U.S. 69, 5.68 miles of signing, striping and delineation, beginning at Onapa and extending north. Estimated $74,000.

U.S. 69, 3.31 miles of grading, drainage and incidental construction, beginning at SH 150 and extending north. Estimated cost $1,374,999.

U.S. 69, three highway overpasses within the limits of the above roadway. Estimated cost $339,000.

••••• 19 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Three Rivers Gathering

The Checotah Indian Community held its annual Three Rivers Gathering this weekend at Lake Eufaula State Park.

••••• 10 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Road to nowhere going places

The parking lot to nowhere, as it’s called, will lead to the Honey Springs Battlefield Visitor Center and LeRoy H. Fischer Research Library.

The dirt was turned, symbolizing the groundbreaking for the new center on a hill in Rentiesville.

More than 100 people gathered at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 19, for the Memorial Service and Groundbreaking Ceremony. Construction should start soon.

It will have stacked stone and wood on the outside and a vista overlook of the battlefield.

The exhibit area will be 1,124 square feet. The research library, named after Fisher who died at age 96 in March, will be 1,639 square feet. A meeting room is 800 square feet and there will be a gift shop.