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Custer County, Oklahoma

Chapel Hill Cemetery

John L. & Ada A. Daugherty

© 2012 Dolores Colwell Willis & Roy Willis

© Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK
Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Mrs. John Daugherty

Mrs. John Daugherty was killed last Sunday afternoon in one of the grimmest automobile accidents that ever struck a Cheyenne family, Mrs. Daugherty was returning from Cheyenne to Bristow, Oklahoma with her son, Bobbie Daugherty for a visit. Bobbie was driving the car occupants of which were Mrs. John Daugherty, Mrs. Bobbie Daugherty, and the eighteen months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Daugherty. On the highway between Oklahoma City and Edmond the car encountered another car in a head-on collision injuring all of the occupants of the Daugherty car. Mrs. John Daugherty died en route to a hospital, the baby died the following day and Bobbie Daugherty is in a critical condition in an Edmond hospital and Mrs. Bobbie Daugherty, also in a critical condition is in Wesley hospital in Oklahoma City.

Funeral services for Mrs. John Daugherty, will be held Friday afternoon at 2;00 p.m. o'clock in Clinton after which burial will be in a cemetery east of Clinton. Burial arrangements for the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Daugherty will await the time when the parents are able to be consulted.

Mrs. John Daugherty, a former, Cheyenne resident, has been living in Dinuba, California and she and her husband had returned to Oklahoma for the holidays. She is survived by her husband and six children. The children are John Daugherty and Mrs. Lillian Combs of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Helen Pankey, Wichita, Kansas, Dick Daugherty, Dinuba, California, Ermine Napier, Purcell, Oklahoma and Bobbie Daugherty, Bristow, Oklahoma.

Mrs. John Daugherty was a sister-in-law of Mrs Uburn Prestridge and an aunt of Harry Dearing, both of Cheyenne.

John L. Daugherty

© Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK
April 8, 1982
Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral service for John L. Daugherty, 95, of Penn Valley, California formerly of Clinton, Oklahoma and Cheyenne, was held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 4, 1982 in the Kern-Schneider-Kiesau Memorial Chapel with the Rev. W. H. Heath, chaplain of Oklahoma Veterans Center officiating. Burial was in the Chapel Hill Cemetery, Clinton, Oklahoma.

John L. Daugherty was born January 1, 1887, in Dent County, Missouri and died January 31, 1982, in Penn Valley, California. At an early age he came to Oklahoma and located in Big Jake Crossing area southeast of Clinton, in Washita County. The Daugherty family also lived a number of years in Roger Mills County.

In 1908 he married Ada Schneider, she preceded him in death.

A farmer-rancher, he moved to Austin, Texas in 1965 and moved to California in 1972. He was a member of the Baptist Church.

He is survived by three sons, Richard of Rough and Ready, California; John of Hamilton City, California and Robert Daugherty of Stillwater, Oklahoma; three daughters, Mrs. Charlie (Lillian) Combs of Grass Valley, California, Helen Ward of Wichita, Kansas; and Mrs. Saline (Ermin) Napier of Austin, Texas; eleven grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.

Five sisters preceded him in death: Mrs. Mattie Spangler, Mrs. Clara Dearing, Mrs. Ethel Prestridge, Mrs. Bessie Bouldin, and Maude Daugherty.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 8-Apr-1982