R.R. Short was the second of five sons of George Thomas "Tom" Short and Dicie Jane Newkirk. He was named after a maternal Great Great Grandfather, Robert Rogers. Some records have his middle name Roger, without the s, but that is incorrect. His headstone says he was born in 1880, but research tells us that he was born in 1878.
Headline in the Okmulgee Daily Times, Oct. 9, 1934
SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS R.R. SHORT
SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL TO PIONEER COUNTY OFFICIAL
Came here in 1913 to become principal of Okmulgee High School
HAD HELD OFFICE EVER SINCE 1919
Was Democratic Nominee For Re-election; Place on Ballot To Be Filled by Demo Committee
R.R. (Bob) Short, 54, veteran Okmulgee county assessor, died at his home, 913 North Morton avenue, at 8:30 p.m. Monday from acute indigestion.
His attending physician, Dr. W.M. Cott, said that he had been ill for only one day and that his condition had not been considered to be serious.
Mr. Short was lying on a couch at his home and was thought to be asleep by his wife. Failing in an attempt to arouse him, she called Dr. Cott who pronounced him dead.
He was born Nov. 19, 1879, and reared on a Morgan county, Mo., farm. When 19 years old he went to Fresno, Calif. And spent a year laboring in vinyards and wheatfields. At the age of 22 he began to to pay his way. His education was finished at the state teachers college in Warrensburg, Mo., and in the University of Missouri.
After completing his education he served as science instructor in Tulsa high school for three years, beginning 1908.
Leaving Tulsa he became superintendent of the Sand Springs Orphan's home, staying there one year, going to Kiefer in 1911 to be principal of the high school there. From Keifer, he came to Okmulgee high school. He held this place for three years and in 1917 he joined the staff of McNabb Hardware company in Henryetta, and was there when he was appointed county assessor in April, 1919.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Short is survived by his wife, two sons, Bob, who lives here, Tom, a student at the University of Oklahoma; a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, also a student at the university, and three brothers, Charles Short, Newkirk; Allen Short, Wichita and Clay Short, Kiowa, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be made today.
Headline in the Okmulgee Daily Times, Oct. 9, 1934
SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS R.R. SHORT
SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL TO PIONEER COUNTY OFFICIAL
Came here in 1913 to become principal of Okmulgee High School
HAD HELD OFFICE EVER SINCE 1919
Was Democratic Nominee For Re-election; Place on Ballot To Be Filled by Demo Committee
R.R. (Bob) Short, 54, veteran Okmulgee county assessor, died at his home, 913 North Morton avenue, at 8:30 p.m. Monday from acute indigestion.
His attending physician, Dr. W.M. Cott, said that he had been ill for only one day and that his condition had not been considered to be serious.
Mr. Short was lying on a couch at his home and was thought to be asleep by his wife. Failing in an attempt to arouse him, she called Dr. Cott who pronounced him dead.
He was born Nov. 19, 1879, and reared on a Morgan county, Mo., farm. When 19 years old he went to Fresno, Calif. And spent a year laboring in vinyards and wheatfields. At the age of 22 he began to to pay his way. His education was finished at the state teachers college in Warrensburg, Mo., and in the University of Missouri.
After completing his education he served as science instructor in Tulsa high school for three years, beginning 1908.
Leaving Tulsa he became superintendent of the Sand Springs Orphan's home, staying there one year, going to Kiefer in 1911 to be principal of the high school there. From Keifer, he came to Okmulgee high school. He held this place for three years and in 1917 he joined the staff of McNabb Hardware company in Henryetta, and was there when he was appointed county assessor in April, 1919.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Short is survived by his wife, two sons, Bob, who lives here, Tom, a student at the University of Oklahoma; a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, also a student at the university, and three brothers, Charles Short, Newkirk; Allen Short, Wichita and Clay Short, Kiowa, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be made today.
R.R. Short was the second of five sons of George Thomas "Tom" Short and Dicie Jane Newkirk. He was named after a maternal Great Great Grandfather, Robert Rogers. Some records have his middle name Roger, without the s, but that is incorrect. His headstone says he was born in 1880, but research tells us that he was born in 1878.
Headline in the Okmulgee Daily Times, Oct. 9, 1934
SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS R.R. SHORT
SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL TO PIONEER COUNTY OFFICIAL
Came here in 1913 to become principal of Okmulgee High School
HAD HELD OFFICE EVER SINCE 1919
Was Democratic Nominee For Re-election; Place on Ballot To Be Filled by Demo Committee
R.R. (Bob) Short, 54, veteran Okmulgee county assessor, died at his home, 913 North Morton avenue, at 8:30 p.m. Monday from acute indigestion.
His attending physician, Dr. W.M. Cott, said that he had been ill for only one day and that his condition had not been considered to be serious.
Mr. Short was lying on a couch at his home and was thought to be asleep by his wife. Failing in an attempt to arouse him, she called Dr. Cott who pronounced him dead.
He was born Nov. 19, 1879, and reared on a Morgan county, Mo., farm. When 19 years old he went to Fresno, Calif. And spent a year laboring in vinyards and wheatfields. At the age of 22 he began to to pay his way. His education was finished at the state teachers college in Warrensburg, Mo., and in the University of Missouri.
After completing his education he served as science instructor in Tulsa high school for three years, beginning 1908.
Leaving Tulsa he became superintendent of the Sand Springs Orphan's home, staying there one year, going to Kiefer in 1911 to be principal of the high school there. From Keifer, he came to Okmulgee high school. He held this place for three years and in 1917 he joined the staff of McNabb Hardware company in Henryetta, and was there when he was appointed county assessor in April, 1919.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Short is survived by his wife, two sons, Bob, who lives here, Tom, a student at the University of Oklahoma; a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, also a student at the university, and three brothers, Charles Short, Newkirk; Allen Short, Wichita and Clay Short, Kiowa, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be made today.
Headline in the Okmulgee Daily Times, Oct. 9, 1934
SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS R.R. SHORT
SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL TO PIONEER COUNTY OFFICIAL
Came here in 1913 to become principal of Okmulgee High School
HAD HELD OFFICE EVER SINCE 1919
Was Democratic Nominee For Re-election; Place on Ballot To Be Filled by Demo Committee
R.R. (Bob) Short, 54, veteran Okmulgee county assessor, died at his home, 913 North Morton avenue, at 8:30 p.m. Monday from acute indigestion.
His attending physician, Dr. W.M. Cott, said that he had been ill for only one day and that his condition had not been considered to be serious.
Mr. Short was lying on a couch at his home and was thought to be asleep by his wife. Failing in an attempt to arouse him, she called Dr. Cott who pronounced him dead.
He was born Nov. 19, 1879, and reared on a Morgan county, Mo., farm. When 19 years old he went to Fresno, Calif. And spent a year laboring in vinyards and wheatfields. At the age of 22 he began to to pay his way. His education was finished at the state teachers college in Warrensburg, Mo., and in the University of Missouri.
After completing his education he served as science instructor in Tulsa high school for three years, beginning 1908.
Leaving Tulsa he became superintendent of the Sand Springs Orphan's home, staying there one year, going to Kiefer in 1911 to be principal of the high school there. From Keifer, he came to Okmulgee high school. He held this place for three years and in 1917 he joined the staff of McNabb Hardware company in Henryetta, and was there when he was appointed county assessor in April, 1919.
He was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Short is survived by his wife, two sons, Bob, who lives here, Tom, a student at the University of Oklahoma; a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, also a student at the university, and three brothers, Charles Short, Newkirk; Allen Short, Wichita and Clay Short, Kiowa, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be made today.
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