Son of Penuell Keepers and Melvina Clark
John married Ameila Clementine Beaver in 1886 and together they had two daughter Bertha Olive and Edith and four sons Joseph Edgar, Dennis Flynn, Guy Stanley and Clark Cecil . In 1891 John moved his family to Oklahoma and by 1910 John owned his own farm in Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma. The 1910 census, Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma, states that John and Amelia had 7 children and 6 were living. Also, listed in the household were two boarders, Daisy Polk, age 23, and Liza Lonakni age 18, both born in Indiana, and both pressers in a tile factory as was the eldest daughter, Bertha.
Enid Morning News, 6 July 1913, Sunday, page 1
STANLEY KEEPER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN UNBALANCED
The body of Stanley Keeper, a well-known farmer, was found yesterday morning on a cot on his back porch, death apparently having occurred nine or ten hours before. A coroner’s jury called at once, found that the man had committed suicide by taking Paris Green. Under a tumbler which had held Paris Green, was found a note to his wife in which he blamed her for his death, saying that she did not love him anymore. The evidence at the inquest tended to show that the man had been mentally deranged for some time.
Stanley Keeper was a man about 50 years of age, and a former Enid citizen, having been the partner of Fred Austin when the latter owned a saloon in Enid. He leaves a wife and family of five: four boys and a daughter. The elder sons are said to have seen their father last alive on Friday morning, when he appeared sick, but talked intelligibly.
Mr. Keeper had trouble with his wife last February, and was said by his neighbors to have been a man of a very violent temper. At that time his wife left him, but returned later. Thursday morning, after having been absent about a week during which time he stayed at an empty house on another farm, the father returned and attempted to force the mother and daughter to drink some Paris Green which he had prepared. They refused and left the farm. It is supposed that he took the dose himself, almost immediately after, for when one of the boys returned to do some chores, he talked to his father who appeared ill, and the boy says he must have taken the poison. Returning Friday morning, the son found the father on the cot where he was later found dead, but the man asked for a drink and gave directions for some work. He was next seen by a neighbor Saturday morning, who found him dead, the undertaker says since about midnight.
Newspaper article found and transcribed by Cathea Curry
John married Ameila Clementine Beaver in 1886 and together they had two daughter Bertha Olive and Edith and four sons Joseph Edgar, Dennis Flynn, Guy Stanley and Clark Cecil . In 1891 John moved his family to Oklahoma and by 1910 John owned his own farm in Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma. The 1910 census, Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma, states that John and Amelia had 7 children and 6 were living. Also, listed in the household were two boarders, Daisy Polk, age 23, and Liza Lonakni age 18, both born in Indiana, and both pressers in a tile factory as was the eldest daughter, Bertha.
Enid Morning News, 6 July 1913, Sunday, page 1
STANLEY KEEPER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN UNBALANCED
The body of Stanley Keeper, a well-known farmer, was found yesterday morning on a cot on his back porch, death apparently having occurred nine or ten hours before. A coroner’s jury called at once, found that the man had committed suicide by taking Paris Green. Under a tumbler which had held Paris Green, was found a note to his wife in which he blamed her for his death, saying that she did not love him anymore. The evidence at the inquest tended to show that the man had been mentally deranged for some time.
Stanley Keeper was a man about 50 years of age, and a former Enid citizen, having been the partner of Fred Austin when the latter owned a saloon in Enid. He leaves a wife and family of five: four boys and a daughter. The elder sons are said to have seen their father last alive on Friday morning, when he appeared sick, but talked intelligibly.
Mr. Keeper had trouble with his wife last February, and was said by his neighbors to have been a man of a very violent temper. At that time his wife left him, but returned later. Thursday morning, after having been absent about a week during which time he stayed at an empty house on another farm, the father returned and attempted to force the mother and daughter to drink some Paris Green which he had prepared. They refused and left the farm. It is supposed that he took the dose himself, almost immediately after, for when one of the boys returned to do some chores, he talked to his father who appeared ill, and the boy says he must have taken the poison. Returning Friday morning, the son found the father on the cot where he was later found dead, but the man asked for a drink and gave directions for some work. He was next seen by a neighbor Saturday morning, who found him dead, the undertaker says since about midnight.
Newspaper article found and transcribed by Cathea Curry
Son of Penuell Keepers and Melvina Clark
John married Ameila Clementine Beaver in 1886 and together they had two daughter Bertha Olive and Edith and four sons Joseph Edgar, Dennis Flynn, Guy Stanley and Clark Cecil . In 1891 John moved his family to Oklahoma and by 1910 John owned his own farm in Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma. The 1910 census, Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma, states that John and Amelia had 7 children and 6 were living. Also, listed in the household were two boarders, Daisy Polk, age 23, and Liza Lonakni age 18, both born in Indiana, and both pressers in a tile factory as was the eldest daughter, Bertha.
Enid Morning News, 6 July 1913, Sunday, page 1
STANLEY KEEPER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN UNBALANCED
The body of Stanley Keeper, a well-known farmer, was found yesterday morning on a cot on his back porch, death apparently having occurred nine or ten hours before. A coroner’s jury called at once, found that the man had committed suicide by taking Paris Green. Under a tumbler which had held Paris Green, was found a note to his wife in which he blamed her for his death, saying that she did not love him anymore. The evidence at the inquest tended to show that the man had been mentally deranged for some time.
Stanley Keeper was a man about 50 years of age, and a former Enid citizen, having been the partner of Fred Austin when the latter owned a saloon in Enid. He leaves a wife and family of five: four boys and a daughter. The elder sons are said to have seen their father last alive on Friday morning, when he appeared sick, but talked intelligibly.
Mr. Keeper had trouble with his wife last February, and was said by his neighbors to have been a man of a very violent temper. At that time his wife left him, but returned later. Thursday morning, after having been absent about a week during which time he stayed at an empty house on another farm, the father returned and attempted to force the mother and daughter to drink some Paris Green which he had prepared. They refused and left the farm. It is supposed that he took the dose himself, almost immediately after, for when one of the boys returned to do some chores, he talked to his father who appeared ill, and the boy says he must have taken the poison. Returning Friday morning, the son found the father on the cot where he was later found dead, but the man asked for a drink and gave directions for some work. He was next seen by a neighbor Saturday morning, who found him dead, the undertaker says since about midnight.
Newspaper article found and transcribed by Cathea Curry
John married Ameila Clementine Beaver in 1886 and together they had two daughter Bertha Olive and Edith and four sons Joseph Edgar, Dennis Flynn, Guy Stanley and Clark Cecil . In 1891 John moved his family to Oklahoma and by 1910 John owned his own farm in Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma. The 1910 census, Banner Twp, Garfield County, Oklahoma, states that John and Amelia had 7 children and 6 were living. Also, listed in the household were two boarders, Daisy Polk, age 23, and Liza Lonakni age 18, both born in Indiana, and both pressers in a tile factory as was the eldest daughter, Bertha.
Enid Morning News, 6 July 1913, Sunday, page 1
STANLEY KEEPER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS WIFE AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN UNBALANCED
The body of Stanley Keeper, a well-known farmer, was found yesterday morning on a cot on his back porch, death apparently having occurred nine or ten hours before. A coroner’s jury called at once, found that the man had committed suicide by taking Paris Green. Under a tumbler which had held Paris Green, was found a note to his wife in which he blamed her for his death, saying that she did not love him anymore. The evidence at the inquest tended to show that the man had been mentally deranged for some time.
Stanley Keeper was a man about 50 years of age, and a former Enid citizen, having been the partner of Fred Austin when the latter owned a saloon in Enid. He leaves a wife and family of five: four boys and a daughter. The elder sons are said to have seen their father last alive on Friday morning, when he appeared sick, but talked intelligibly.
Mr. Keeper had trouble with his wife last February, and was said by his neighbors to have been a man of a very violent temper. At that time his wife left him, but returned later. Thursday morning, after having been absent about a week during which time he stayed at an empty house on another farm, the father returned and attempted to force the mother and daughter to drink some Paris Green which he had prepared. They refused and left the farm. It is supposed that he took the dose himself, almost immediately after, for when one of the boys returned to do some chores, he talked to his father who appeared ill, and the boy says he must have taken the poison. Returning Friday morning, the son found the father on the cot where he was later found dead, but the man asked for a drink and gave directions for some work. He was next seen by a neighbor Saturday morning, who found him dead, the undertaker says since about midnight.
Newspaper article found and transcribed by Cathea Curry
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