Richard Keith Meadows

1933 - 1944

• Born	9 May 1933	Eakly, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  Gender	Male
  Event	24 Sep 1936	Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA   [1]
  	"Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows and son Keith called on her mother, Mrs. Lindsey Morgan Thursday."
  Died	7 May 1944	Eakly, Caddo County, Oklahoma   [2]
  Buried	Eakly Cemetery, Eakly, Oklahoma   [3]
  Person ID	I196	lin
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	William Roy Meadows,   b. 22 Feb 1902,   d. 19 May 1969, Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma
  Mother	Chlora Othal Morgan,   b. 28 Jul 1910, Merkel, Taylor County, Texas ,   d. 1994, Ponca City, Oklahoma
  Married	12 Jan 1929	Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma, USA
  Documents » Slide Show		M23 Caddo County, Oklahoma Cemeteries - EAKLY CEMETERY
  		Newspaper Article "The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows was very badly burned by pulling a teakettle of hot water over on himself. Mrs. Lindsey Morgan is ill with pneumonia."
  		Newspaper Article. "Bert Watson called in the Lindsey Morgan home Saturday night." "Lindsey Morgan called in the Cald??? hom Sunday moning." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children spent the last weekmend with parents Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Sink of Apache." "Wilda Morgan called Saturday evening on Miss Gladys Longacre." "Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows and son Keith called on her mother Mrs. Lindsey Morgan Thursday." "Mrs. Wells spent the afternoon with Mrs. Morgan." "Jim and Lora McPherson called in the Carl Morgan home Sunday." "Carl Sherman Morgan spent Sunday with his grandma Morgan." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children called in the Burt Watson home Sunday." (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
  		Newspaper articl: Pioneer News "Burt Watson called at the Lindsey Morgan home Saturday night." "Lindsay Morgan called at the Cald???? home Sunday Morning." "Lindsay Morgan called at the Jodie Rogers home Wednesday Morning." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children spent the last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Sink at Apache." "Wilda Morgan call Saturday evening on Miss Glady Longacre." "Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows and son Keith called on her mother, Mrs. Lindsey Morgan Thursday." "Jim and Lara McPherson called in the Carl Morgan home Sunday." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children called in the Bert Watson Sunday."
  		Newspaper article: Oak Dale Items "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Morgan and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Barney and son, and Mr. Meadow spent Thursday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows." (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
  		M367 Newspaper Article "Mrs. Lindsey Morgan returned home Sunday from a visit to Galveston, Texas." "Misses Berice and Hazel Shaw spent Sunday with Misses Ruth and Wilda Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows were afernoon callers."
  		M47 Social Security Death Index for William Roy Meadows
  Family ID	F58	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents		M23 Caddo County, Oklahoma Cemeteries - EAKLY CEMETERY
  		M38 Morgan Family Record (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
  		Handwritten letter from Chlora Othal Morgan to Lindsey Ray Morgan (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
  		Newspaper Article "The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows was very badly burned by pulling a teakettle of hot water over on himself. Mrs. Lindsey Morgan is ill with pneumonia."
  		Newspaper Article. "Bert Watson called in the Lindsey Morgan home Saturday night." "Lindsey Morgan called in the Cald??? hom Sunday moning." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children spent the last weekmend with parents Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Sink of Apache." "Wilda Morgan called Saturday evening on Miss Gladys Longacre." "Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows and son Keith called on her mother Mrs. Lindsey Morgan Thursday." "Mrs. Wells spent the afternoon with Mrs. Morgan." "Jim and Lora McPherson called in the Carl Morgan home Sunday." "Carl Sherman Morgan spent Sunday with his grandma Morgan." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children called in the Burt Watson home Sunday." (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
  		Newspaper articl: Pioneer News "Burt Watson called at the Lindsey Morgan home Saturday night." "Lindsay Morgan called at the Cald???? home Sunday Morning." "Lindsay Morgan called at the Jodie Rogers home Wednesday Morning." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children spent the last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Sink at Apache." "Wilda Morgan call Saturday evening on Miss Glady Longacre." "Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows and son Keith called on her mother, Mrs. Lindsey Morgan Thursday." "Jim and Lara McPherson called in the Carl Morgan home Sunday." "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morgan and children called in the Bert Watson Sunday."

  
  

  Headstones		Richard Keith Meadows Memorial with Gravestone Photo Created by Nancy Charlton on February 24, 2011.
  		William Roy Meadows Memorial with Gravestone Photo Created by Nancy Charlton on February 24, 2011.

  
  

• Notes

  The Carnegie Herald, Wed., May 10, 1944 Two Eakly Boys Go On Fatal Swim Party Two boys who were inseparable pals, classmates in the fifth grade at Sickles school northeast of Eakly, each 11 years old and their birthdays the same day, went to their death locked in each other's arms Sunday. The boys went for a swim as part of their birthday celebration and drowned in a small stream on the Gordon Burkhart farm occupied by Walter Sharry. The boys were Alfred Putcheck, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Putcheck, and Keith Meadows, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Meadows. The two families live about a mile apart on adjoining farms three miles east of Eakly. The bodies were recovered from a hole seven feet deep at 11 p.m. after aroused neighbors had searched for hours. Mrs. Putcheck baked a birthday cake for the boys Sunday and Keith was spending the day with Alfred in celebration of their birthday which was two days later. In the afternoon the boys left the house without announcing their destination. In the evening when the family dog came to the house, Mr. Putcheck remarked that "the dog is in, the boys will soon be here." When the boys did not arrive home a search was started and neighbors attending church at Oak Dale joined the hunt. The boys' shoes were found some distance from where their clothing was discovered. They had removed their shoes and waded up the small stream to the swimming hole. The bodies were discovered with their arms about each other by Oland Hudson. He with Otto Sink, Hubert McDaniel and Elmo Kimble recovered the bodies from the icy water. Hudson said the first stepoff into the small hole was about knee deep, the second about waist deep and then there was a sharp decline to seven or eight feet. The boys were the same age, in the same class at school and each was an only child. Unconfirmed reports and speculation have constructed many solutions of the Sunday afternoon tragedy. Neither of the boys could swim and both were afraid of water, according to one report. Another report said the boys planned the swimming party at school Friday. Mr. Putcheck said he was the last person to see the boys alive. They told him they were going for a walk. And so the trip to the creek was planned. The boys treked off across the field to the neighboring farm, removing their shoes and waded ankle-deep water to the hole fed by a spring. They might have waded in and stepped into the deep hole together. The fact that neither could swim would discount the theory that one went to the rescue of the other, it was pointed out by rescuers. Funeral services for the victims were held Tuesday on their birthday. Rev. T. Mulder, assisted by Rev. L.W. Skaggs, conducted the services for Alfred at 1 p.m. in the Eakly Methodist church, and Rev. Ben Crawford conducted the services for Keith at 4:30 p.m. in the Oak Dale Baptist church. Burial for both boys was in the Eakly cemetery.

  
  

• Sources

  [S780] M356 September 24, 1936, Daily American Democrat, Anadarko, Caddo County County, Oklahoma, mentioning Lindsey York Morgan, Carl Victor Morgan, Letha Sink, Wilda Marie Morgan, Chlora Othel Morgan, Roy Meadows, Keith Meadows, Mary Alice Robbins., Daily American Democrat, Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA, (Daily American Democrat, Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA), M356.. [S154] M23 Cemetery Records of Eakly Cemetery, Caddo County, Oklahoma, www.rootsweb.com, M23. (Reliability: 3). [S516] Richard Keith Meadows Memorial - findagrave.com, (findagrave.com), M178..