Beckham Co. OK            LERA MARSHALL
                                      

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   Elk City Paper January 25, 1940
   
   LERA MARHSALL
   
   Cold weather which hovered near the zero point here throughout the
   week was given by county and city police officers as the cause of the
   death of a negro woman found frozen to death on a road about a quarter
   of a mile south of the Lincoln Park negro section Wednesday morning.
   
   The woman, Lera MARSHALL, about 40 years old, who lived in the Lincoln
   Park section for a short time and had been living near Canute, was
   found by Cecil RALPH and Fount HUDGENS.
   
   An investigation was conducted by County Attorney Neville GILLUM,
   Sheriff Earl FRANCIS and Police Chief W. A. SHOPE. The autopsy was
   performed by Dr. V. C. TISDAL and death as a result of freezing was
   given. There was no evidence of violence. Residents of Lincoln Park
   said she had been drinking Tuesday night.
   
   She came here a few weeks ago from Arizona with her husband, Pete
   MARSHALL, who is receiving treatment in a Clinton hospital.
   
   Note: Burial at Evergreen Cemetery