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Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Lillian Cotten
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 29, 1957
Benjamin Sheppard Bailey
Fort Cobb Pioneer Dies Thursday In Oklahoma City FORT COBB-Funeral services for Benjamin S. "Shep" Bailey were held Saturday afternoon in the Baptist church after his death Thursday at his home in Oklahoma City.
Rev. J.C. Brown of Oklahoma City, officiated, assisted by Rev. Ted Ewing, local Baptist pastor. Interment was in the Fort Cobb cemetery under the direction of the Fort Cobb funeral home.
Mr. Bailey was a native of Texas, but had been a resident of Caddo county since 1902 until two years ago when he moved to Oklahoma City. He was born September 19, 1873, and lacked only a few days of being 84 years of age.
He was married to Miss Betty Ann Bagwell, April 16, 1896, at Glenrose, Texas.
He was a member of the Sooner Methodist church in Oklahoma City.
He is survived by his wife of the home; five sons, Tom of Bakersfield, Calif.,Frank and Hubert of Fort Cobb, Kay of Bakersfield, and Finis of Shafter, Calif.; five daughters, Mrs. Lola Hollis, Moorepark, California.
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