Married May 24, 1896 in Oklahoma City.
Sarah "Ella" reportedly was shot and killed by her husband when she refused to give him money for his gambling debts. As reported, "He thereupon became enraged and shot her while in his frenzy." He was originally sentenced to hang, but he was a model prisoner in the Kansas penitentiary and his sentence was commuted and he was released by 1910, when he is shown in the census as a barber in Oklahoma City.
After Sarah's death, their 3-year-old daughter Varvel then lived with her grandparents, Robert and Martha Jane (Varvel) Housh.
Sarah "Ella" reportedly was shot and killed by her husband when she refused to give him money for his gambling debts. As reported, "He thereupon became enraged and shot her while in his frenzy." He was originally sentenced to hang, but he was a model prisoner in the Kansas penitentiary and his sentence was commuted and he was released by 1910, when he is shown in the census as a barber in Oklahoma City.
After Sarah's death, their 3-year-old daughter Varvel then lived with her grandparents, Robert and Martha Jane (Varvel) Housh.
Married May 24, 1896 in Oklahoma City.
Sarah "Ella" reportedly was shot and killed by her husband when she refused to give him money for his gambling debts. As reported, "He thereupon became enraged and shot her while in his frenzy." He was originally sentenced to hang, but he was a model prisoner in the Kansas penitentiary and his sentence was commuted and he was released by 1910, when he is shown in the census as a barber in Oklahoma City.
After Sarah's death, their 3-year-old daughter Varvel then lived with her grandparents, Robert and Martha Jane (Varvel) Housh.
Sarah "Ella" reportedly was shot and killed by her husband when she refused to give him money for his gambling debts. As reported, "He thereupon became enraged and shot her while in his frenzy." He was originally sentenced to hang, but he was a model prisoner in the Kansas penitentiary and his sentence was commuted and he was released by 1910, when he is shown in the census as a barber in Oklahoma City.
After Sarah's death, their 3-year-old daughter Varvel then lived with her grandparents, Robert and Martha Jane (Varvel) Housh.
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