Miles Pearce
Age 45 - May 5, 1928

Miles Pearce

© Tulsa Tribune

Saturday June 9, 1928

Submitted by: Connie

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:30 from the Christian church for Miles Pearce, 45, who died at the Sand Springs hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile wreck early Sunday Morning on the Wekiwa road.

Rev. M. S. Simms, pastor of the Christian church, was in charge of services.

This death was the fifth of a series of accidental deaths in the family durng the past 10 years. Mr. Pearce's nephew, Miles Pearce, was accidentally shot and died from the wound in 1918 at the Sand Springs hospital. His wife was accidentally killed when she was struck by an interurban car along the Sand Springs, in November 1924. Four days later, a brother-in-law, Clarence Russell, was killed in a tank explosion and on February 4 of this year Mr. Pearce's father, John Pearce, was killed when he fell from a load of hay. Mr. Pearce died on May 5.

He is survived by his widow Mrs. Bertha Pearce; four brothers, Roy Pearce of St. Louis, William Pearce and Barney Pearce, both of Sand Springs, and Lonnie Pearce; five sisters, Mrs. Jessie McManus, Tulsa, Mrs. Maud Flute, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mrs. Dora Elliott, Mrs. Erma Boyer and Mrs. Luna Kobeck, all of Sand Springs, and his mother Mrs. M. E. Pearce of Sand Spring.

Interment was at Woodlawn cemetery, with Lewis-Landrith, funeral directors, in charge.