funeral services for Charles Mayes, 31, and Lee Flournoy, 30, who were killed Wednesday in a gun battle with officers at Picher Oklahoma, were held at Webb City Missouri at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The services were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Laws, pastor of the Baptist church. Flournoy was buried in Mount Hope cemetery, Joplin, beside the grave of his father, who died recently.
From:
Ottawa County, Indian Territory / Oklahoma Early Newspaper Fragments
Fairland, Picher, Quapaw and Wyandotte, 1895-1934
byS J Mahurin