Thomas Richard Madden - Deputy US Marshal

U.S. Marshal Service  April 19, 1896

Thomas Madden had been in the Indian Territory for seventeen years and as a white man married to a Cherokee woman, he was an adopted citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Thomas Madden was sworn in as a Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas on June 15, 1894. Thomas Madden owned a large general store in Braggs.

A group of Cherokee men, known as the Kee-too-wah Society, had threatened to murder Thomas Madden and burn down his house. Despite the threat Thomas Madden did not leave the area.

On Sunday morning, April 19, 1896, Thomas Madden, 45, was informed that Mose Miller, a twenty-year-old Cherokee Indian and member of the Kee-too-wah Society, was loitering in front of Thomas Madden’s closed store. Mose Miller had a bad reputation and was out of jail on bond for assault. Thomas Madden’s brother, John, accompanied him to investigate Mose Miller. As the Madden brothers approached the front of the store, Mose Miller drew his gun and fired. The Madden brothers drew their guns and returned fire. Deputy Marshal Thomas Madden was struck in the hip and groin and fell dead. John Madden kept firing at Mose Miller, but Miller escaped.

Thomas Madden is buried in South Bethel Cemetery, Braggs, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

Mose Miller later killed Deputy U.S. Marshal Joe Jordan on October 14, 1897, before Miller was shot and killed in a shootout with Sequoyah County Deputy Sheriff Till Conley on September 30, 1916.

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J. R. Maddox – Deputy U.S. Marshal

U.S. Marshal Service

This appears to be a mistaken name on the memorial.  

Initial newspaper reports of a shooting occurring July 4, 1907, near Porum, Oklahoma Territory, reported that two Deputy U.S. Marshal, E. J. Sapper and J. R. Maddox, were killed. Later newspaper reports corrected the name of the only Deputy U.S. Marshal killed in the shooting was Sam Roberts (Samuel E. Roberts). No record has been found of a Deputy U.S. Marshal named J. R. Maddox.

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Updated November 7, 2021

J.C. Magar - Trooper

Oklahoma Highway Patrol June 29, 1975

On Sunday morning, June 29, 1975, the day after Trooper J C Magar’s twenty-nineth birthday, Trooper J C Magar stopped to assist a stranded couple two miles south of Hugo on Highway 271. Trooper Magar gave the couple, Charles and Irene McAlpine, a ride into Hugo to a car wash to use a pay phone.

Trooper J C Magar then drove to the Hugo police station a block away. The McAlpine’s soon followed the state trooper into the police station. Charles McAlpine walked over to Trooper Magar and asked him to make a phone call for him then McAlpine grabbed Trooper Magar’s gun from its holster. Charles McAlpine then at gun point ordered Trooper Magar outside and to take him to an airport. Once outside the Hugo police station Charles McAlpine shot Trooper Magar in the chest then ran pursued by Hugo police officers. During the exchange of shots with the Hugo officers Charles McAlpine shot himself in the head. Trooper J C Magar and Charles McAlpine were taken to the hospital where they both died that afternoon.

Trooper J C Magar was survived by his wife Brenda and two children, Dana, 8, and James, 5. His son James went on to become an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper.

J C Magar is buried in Broken Bow Cemetery, Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

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Updated June 27, 2024

Steven Leroy Mahan - Sergeant

Elk City Police Department  January 5, 1983

Shortly after 2 a.m. the morning of Wednesday, January 5, 1983, Sergeant Steven Mahan, 30, stopped by the Los Cuartos Inn motel on I-40 to check the welfare of the night clerk as he routinely did. Sergeant Mahan noticed the motel clerk was absent then saw a black man run around the corner of the motel. Sergeant Mahan was then confronted by two other black men, who then shot Sergeant Steven Mahan in the abdomen. While Sergeant Mahan was lying face down on the ground he was disarmed and shot several times in the head.

Three men were arrested thirty minutes later in Clinton and were charged with the armed robbery of the motel and the murder of Sergeant Steven Mahan.

Sergeant Steven Mahan died at 5:30 a.m. that morning and was survived by his ex-wife and 2-year-old-daughter, Heather.  

Steven Mahan is buried in Clinton Cemetery, Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma.

Two of the arrested men, Jerry E. Long and Mitchell E. Henderson were sentenced to forty years in prison while the third man, Bobby L. Ross received the death penalty and was executed by lethal injection on December 9, 1999.

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Updated January 2, 2024

Johnny Ray Maisano, Sr. - State Game Warden

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife  August 26, 1990

Johnny Maisano, 53, had been a State Game Warden for thirteen years when in January of 1988 he contracted Lyme Disease from handling animals killed on the roads in his area which was part of his duties. Johnny Maisano was hospitalized several times over the next couple years from the effects of the disease. Despite his continual sufferings from the disease Johnny Maisano remained an active Game Warden until his death the morning of Sunday, August 26, 1990. Johnny Maisano had died in his sleep during the night at home following an active day at a local sportsmen’s club fish fry at Robber’s Cave State Park near Wilburton.

Johnny Maisano had filed a worker’s comp claim in 1989 and in late December 1990, four months after his death, the Worker’s Compensation Court of Oklahoma ruled that Game Warden Johnny Maisano had contracted the Lyme Disease in the course and scope of his employment as a State Game Warden.

Johnny Maisano was survived by his wife Mary and two grown children, Jim and Belinda and is buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 26, 2023

Thomas Elbert Majors - Deputy Sheriff

Seminole County Sheriffs Office  October 1, 1927

About 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 1, 1927, Deputy Sheriffs Thomas Majors and Jim Villines had tracked some jail escapees to a rooming house in Wilsonville. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Majors went to the front door while Deputy Sheriff Jim Villines went to the back of the rooming house. Upon finding the back door locked Deputy Sheriff Villines returned to the front door and observed Deputy Sheriff Thomas Majors fighting with one of the escapees, Jack Bailey, for control of Deputy Sheriff Major’s gun. Deputy Sheriff Jim Villines drew his gun and fired at Jack Bailey but accidentally shot Deputy Sheriff Thomas Majors in the head. Jack Bailey escaped again, and Deputy Sheriff Thomas Majors died soon after arriving at the hospital.

Thomas Majors, 40, had been an officer at Citra in Hughes County for twelve years prior to becoming a Deputy Sheriff in Seminole County just a few days before his death.  

 Deputy Sheriff Thomas Majors was survived by his wife Ruth and their four children ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old and is buried in Holdenville Cemetery, Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma.

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Updated September 28, 2023

James E.dward Maloch - Chief of  Police

Perry Police Department December 14, 1915

About 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 11, 1915, Chief James Maloch, 37, had an informant make a “buy” of liquor from a known bootlegger named Lee Hilbert. Afterwards when Chief James Maloch and Noble County Deputy Sheriff Barnes started toward Lee Hilbert to arrest him, Lee Hilbert pulled a .38 caliber revolver from his pocket and fired once as he started to run. Police Chief James Maloch returned fire but soon slumped to the ground shot in the abdomen.

Lee Hilbert was captured the next day.

Chief James Maloch died three days later at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, December 14th.

Chief James Maloch was survived by his wife Maggie and their five children and is buried in Grace Hill Cemetery, Perry, Noble County, Oklahoma.

Lee Hilbert was found guilty of the killing of Chief James Maloch and sentenced to life in prison.

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Updated December 12, 2023

Stephen Mann - City Marshal

City of Medford  June 28, 1925

Stephen Mann was born in Hastings Borough, East Sussex, England on January 17, 1879.

City Marshal Stephen Mann, 45, was shot and killed almost instantly early Sunday morning, June 28, 1925, during a gun battle with Ray Johnson and Albert Greer whom City Marshal Mann had surprised in an alley as they were burglarizing a Medford store.

City Marshal Stephen Mann was survived by his wife Annie and their two young children, Doris, and Stephen “Walter”, 14.

Stephen Mann is buried in Rosemound Cemetery, Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma next to his wife Annie.

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Updated June 2, 2024

Daniel  Parry "Dan"  Maples - Deputy U.S. Marshal
U. S. Marshal Service May 6, 1887

Daniel Parry “Dan” Maples was born January 17, 1846, to Americus Bonaparte and Matilda Ann Rose Maples.

Late Wednesday evening, May 4, 1887, Deputy Marshal Daniel Maples was returning to camp in Tahlequah where he was with his posse, George Jefferson, investigating illegal whiskey operations when Deputy Marshal Maples was shot in the chest from ambush. Deputy Marshal Daniel Maples fired four shots at his attacker as he fell, missing his assailant. Deputy Marshal Maples died shortly after midnight on Thursday, May 5th from his chest wound.

Ned Christie, a Cherokee, was quickly suspected of being Deputy Marshal Maples’ killer and a warrant for his arrest issued. For over five years the deputy marshals tried to arrest Ned Christie. Finally, the early morning hours of Friday, November 4, 1892, Ned Christie was killed in a fiery gun battle with Deputy U.S. Marshals at Christie’s fortress type log cabin.

In 1918, thirty-one years after Deputy Marshal Daniel Maples’ death, Richard A. “Dick” Humphrey, an eyewitness to the murder of Deputy Marshal Maples, finally revealed that the killer was in fact Thomas Bud Trainor, Jr. who had been killed in 1896.   

Deputy Marshal Daniel Maples was survived by his wife Maletha and their sons Archibald, 17, and George, 6.

Daniel Maples is buried in Bentonville Cemetery, Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas.

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Updated May 4, 2024

Herbert E. Marlow - Officer

Dewey Police Department November 11, 1922

At 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning, November 11, 1922, Officers Herbert Marlow, 35, and Ralston while patrolling observed two men inside a clothing store putting clothes in suitcases. Officer Marlow sent Officer Ralston, who was unarmed, for the other armed officer on duty while Marlow stood by an open door of the store. Officer Herbert Marlow was unaware that the streetlight back lit him. A third man acting as look out shot Officer Herbert Marlow in the left lung with a rifle with the bullet then traveling downward. Officer Herbert Marlow fired all five rounds in his revolver before he collapsed. The returning officers pursued the suspects, but they escaped. The two officers then returned and found Officer Herbert Marlow to be dead.

Officer Herbert Marlow is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.

Jesse D. Paul, a member of the Al Spencer gang of bank robbers, was the only person ever charged in the death of Officer Herbert Marlow. Jesse Paul was arrested on bank robbery charges and while in custody confessed to the murder and received a life sentence in 1923. Jesse Paul was paroled in January 1948 but sent back to prison for parole violation in May 1950. Jesse Paul was paroled again in 1961 at the age of 72.

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Updated November 5, 2023

Mickey Bryant Maroney - Special Agent

U. S. Secret Service  April 19, 1995

Mickey Maroney was the youngest of eleven children and was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. Maturing to six-feet five-inches in height, Mickey Maroney was recruited to the University of Arkansas football team by Assistant Coach Barry Switzer. Mickey Maroney was defense end with Arkansas when they won the National Championship in 1964.

Mickey Maroney became an agent with the U.S. Secret Service in 1970. Special Agent Mickey Maroney, 50, was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. Wednesday, April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City.

Special Agent Mickey Maroney was survived by his wife Robbie, son, daughter and stepson.

Mickey Maroney is buried in Resthaven Gardens Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

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Updated April 17, 2024

A. J. Marshall – Territorial Sheriff

1898 – 1907

There is no record of an officer by this name. This name was mistakenly engraved on the Oklahoma Peace Officers Memorial when it was constructed in 1969 and appears to be referring to Langston City Marshal A. J. Boyd who died in 1900.

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Updated July 11, 2024

Robert Marshal - Private

U. S. Indian Police September 10, 1894

Private Robert Marshall may also have been commissioned as a Deputy U.S. Marshal and a member of the Creek Nation Lighhorse. Robert Marshal is described as a mixed blood Creek-Negro.

On Monday September 10, 1894, a black man named Charles Smith was in Muskogee and in the process of cutting the harnesses of some horses he intended to steal when another man, John Welch, interrupted him. Charles Smith shot and killed John Welch. Later that same day at the fairgrounds east of Muskogee, Private Robert Marshall attempted to arrest Charles Smith for John Welch’s murder when Charles Smith shot and killed Private Robert Marshall.

Charles Smith was later arrested, convicted of murder on February 20, 1895, and sentenced to death but his verdict was later reversed, and he was given a new trial. The new trial found Charles Smith guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to ten years in prison.

The burial site of Robert Marshall is unknown.

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Updated July 11, 2024

William Jessie Marshall - Guard

Oklahoma Department of Corrections June 16, 1911

About 5 p.m. Thursday, June 15, 1911, Guard William Marshall, 30, was finishing his shift as a guard at the convict camp west of Cordell. As William Marshall descended the steps of the guard tower his revolver slipped from his hand with the gun’s hammer striking the steps underneath Marshall. The revolver discharged with the bullet passing through William Marshall’s body and coming out under the right shoulder. Guard William Marshall was transported to the Cordell hospital for treatment but died at 6 a.m. the next morning, June 16th.

William Marshall was survived by his wife and is buried in the Granite City Cemetery, Granite, Greer County, Oklahoma.

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Updated June 3, 2024

Daniel Boyd Martin - Trooper

Oklahoma Highway Patrol  April 22, 2018

Trooper Daniel Martin, 46, was assigned to Troop D, Okfuskee County the afternoon of March 1, 2018, when his shift began at 2 p.m. During his shift Trooper Martin made eleven enforcement contacts and made two felony warrant arrests about 7 p.m. Trooper Martin ended his shift at 11 p.m. arriving at his residence.

At 11:40 p.m. it appeared Trooper Daniel Martin suffered a heart attack and was transported to the local hospital by ambulance. Just after midnight he was med flighted to Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa.  Trooper Martin underwent open heart surgery. Trooper Martin was released from Saint Francis Hospital three days later and began rehab. Trooper Daniel Martin was still taking rehab on April 22nd when late that evening, he appeared to suffer another heart attack and was transported to the hospital where lifesaving procedures were not successful, and Trooper Daniel Martin was pronounced dead just after midnight the morning of April 23rd.

Trooper Daniel Martin was survived by his wife Cara and sons Nicholas and Jacob and is buried in Welty Cemetery, Welty, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.

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Updated July 11, 2024

John Thomas "Red" Martin - Night City Marshal

City of Carnegie April 19, 1960

On Tuesday night April 19, 1960, George Adkins had advised Night City Marshal John Martin, 57, that two men were burglarizing a barn on his father-in-law’s farm, two miles south of Carnegie. City Marshal John Martin and George Adkins went to the farm and found one man still in the barn. George Adkins stayed in the barn while City Marshal John Martin went to look for the second man. City Marshal John Martin observed the second man, Murbus Yarbrough, walking with a shotgun. City Marshal John Martin ordered Murbus Yarbrough to stop but Yarbrough kept walking. City Marshal Martin then fired at Murbus Yarbrough four times when Yarbrough turned and fired one shot at City Marshal John Martin striking him in the face and neck, killing him.

Night City Marshal John Martin was survived by his wife, Joy “Louise”, married daughter Addie (Reeder) and a fifteen-year-old son Alfred Lee, and is buried in Pryor Cemetery, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

Murbus Yarbrough pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.

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Updated April 17, 2024

Ben Mayes - Officer
Seminole Police Department December 3, 1929

Officer Ben Mayes was a black officer with extensive law enforcement experience having served as a deputy sheriff in Seminole and Okmulgee Counties before becoming a Seminole Police Officer.

On Sunday December 1, 1929, Officer Ben Mayes was attempting to arrest a black man named H. L. “Sonny” Carson when Carson resisted arrest and shot Officer Mayes in the leg. Although Officer Ben Mayes’ wound was thought not to be serious, he died in a Seminole hospital the morning of Tuesday, December 3rd.

Officer Ben Mayes’ burial site is unknown.

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Jesse Bushyhead Mayes – Deputy U.S. Marshal / High Sheriff

U.S. Marshal Service / Cherokee Nation

This officer is not listed by the U.S. Marshal Service as being killed in the line of duty but is listed on the Fort Smith Memorial for the year 1884.

Mr. Bivins’ only other documentation for placing his name on the Oklahoma Peace Officers Memorial in 1969 for the decade 1878 -1887 is a letter from Jesse Mayes’ niece in Pryor. She wrote that her uncle, Jesse Mayes, had been a Deputy U.S. Marshal who had gone to the northwestern part of the Cooweescoowee District of the Cherokee Nation near present day Bartlesville to arrest a negro fugitive. She believed this occurred sometime in 1884 or 1886. Deputy Marshal Jesse Mayes arrested the man and took him by train to Fort Gibson. While staying overnight before taking his prisoner to Tahlequah, Mayes was allegedly given a poisoned drink by a man Mayes had arrested in the past. The letter went on to say that Deputy Marshal Jesse Mayes was treated by Dr. Jess Busyhead but died before he could identify the man who poisoned him. Nothing can be found to document this story or his death during this period.

An article in The Indian Chieftain of Thursday, May 16, 1889, states that High Sheriff Jesse Mayes left Tahlequah with a prisoner bound for Fort Smith and died after a day or two’s illness at Ft. Gibson, on Friday (May 10th) at 2 p.m. from an affection of the stomach.  

Jesse Mayes was survived by his wife Cherokee Cornelia (Adair) and their daughter Martha Adair “Patsy”, 14.

Jesse Mayes was buried in Ross Mayes Cemetery, a family cemetery one mile east of Salina, Mayes County, Oklahoma.

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Updated July 11, 2024

William “Bill” Mayes - Field Inspector

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association May 4, 1919

On Sunday morning, May 4, 1919, Inspector William Mayes, 52, along with U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer, William Miller went to the Kiamichi Hills near Sherwood in the northern part of McCurtain County with the purpose of raiding a moonshine still operated by West Henry.

Both agents were killed from ambush when they were each shot in the back twice with a 30-30 caliber rifle and Officer William Miller was shot once in the face with a shotgun by West Henry. West Henry soon after surrendered himself to the sheriff and admitted the killings stating they were in self-defense. West Henry was acquitted of the charges at trial.

Inspector William Mayes was survived by his wife Jeanette and their two children.

Inspector William Mayes and Officer William Miller are buried in the same unmarked grave in Holly Creek Cemetery, Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

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Updated April 25, 2024

William R. Mayfield - Supervisor

Oklahoma State Penitentiary

Oklahoma Department Of Corrections

On Tuesday January 19, 1926, William Mayfield was supervisor for the brickyard at the State Penitentiary in McAlester. One of the prisoners in the brickyard that day was George McCall. McCall was originally sentenced to five years for burglary but in 1925 he killed his cellmate and received and additional twenty-five-year sentence.

George McCall had a plan to escape on this Tuesday. McCall threw a brick at Supervisor William Mayfield striking him in the back of the head causing a deep wound and a fractured skull. Other prison guards then shot McCall.

William Mayfield died of his head wound the next morning on Wednesday, January 20, 1926, survived by his wife and four children.

William Mayfield is buried in Mount Washington Cemetery, Lenapah, Nowata County, Oklahoma.

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John A. McAllister – Deputy U.S. Marshal

U.S. Marshal Service  February 10, 1889

John A. McAllister was given his oath of Office as a Deputy U.S. Marshal on May 23, 1888.

Deputy Marsha John McAllister’s death does not appear to be a line of duty death.

Newspaper articles of the time indicate that Deputy Marshal John McAllister went on a shooting spree the night of Saturday, February 2, 1889, in Purcell and fired shots into the home of a man named Charles Stein. Charles Stein, believing someone was trying to kill him, got his Winchester rifle and returned the gun fire striking Deputy Marshal John McAllister. Charles Stein then left the area and headed north toward Kansas. Two rewards were offered for the capture of Charles Stein. Deputy U.S. Marshals John Swain, James Williams and Matt Cook took up the trail of Charles Stein the next day and located him eighty miles north of Purcell on Saturday, February 9, 1889. When ordered to surrender Charles Stein opened fire on the officers who returned fire and killed Stein.

Deputy Marshal John McAllister died from his wounds at 8 p.m. the next night on Sunday, February 10, 1889.

The burial site of Deputy Marshal John A. McAllister is unknown.

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Updated July 12, 2024

William James “Will” McAnally - Chief of Police

Beggs Police Department    May 18, 1927

At 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday May 18, 1927, Chief William McAnally was talking to a local merchant in front of the Farmers National Bank in Beggs, when three men walked past them, got into a car, and drove off. The merchant recognized one of the men as Matt Kimes, notorious leader of a gang of bank robbers. The merchant advised Chief McAnally who quickly stepped into the bank and found it had been robbed by the three men. Chief McAnally stepped back outside and fired twice at the fleeing vehicle.

Chief William McAnally was unaware that the Kimes gang was robbing two banks in Beggs that morning. Two more carloads of gang members were just leaving the First National Bank down the street. Seeing Chief McAnally firing at their comrades in the other car, the two cars pulled up in front of Chief William McAnally and opened fire on him with automatic shotguns. With ninety-six pellets of Number Four shot in his body, Chief William McAnally died within twenty minutes.

Chief William McAnally was survived by his wife Lucious, four sons and two daughters.

William McAnally is buried in Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

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Updated May 9, 2024

Jeremy David McCain – Deputy Sheriff

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office  March 20, 2023

Jeremy McCain was born December 13, 1986, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and graduated from Choctaw High School in 2005.

By March 2023 Jeremy McCain, 36, had been a Deputy Sheriff for Oklahoma County for eleven years and had served as the School Resource Officer for Oklahoma Christian School at 4680 E. 2nd Street in east Edmond for the past six years.

About 6:50 p.m. on Friday, March 10, 2023, Deputy Sheriff McCain was leaving Oklahoma Christian School in his county patrol car when his vehicle struck a partially open pole type security gate. The pole gate pierced the patrol car’s windshield and pinned Deputy Sheriff McCain against the driver’s seat, breaking his neck. Deputy Sheriff McCain was removed from the patrol car and taken to OU Medical Center in critical condition. Deputy Sheriff McCain reportedly died three times that evening, once at the scene, once in the emergency room and once during surgery. Deputy Sheriff Jeremy McCain remained in critical condition in the hospital until his death Monday morning March 20, 2023.

Deputy Sheriff Jeremy McCain was a single father and was survived by his seven-year-old son, Collin Lincoln James “The Mouse” McCain.

Following a funeral service on Friday, March 24th the earthly remains of Jeremy McCain were cremated.

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Updated May 1, 2024

W. W. “Bill” McCall - Deputy U. S. Marshal

U. S. Marshals Service January 10, 1895

William W. McCall was born August 30, 1860, in Cooke County, Texas. He married Alice Belle Fisher, and they had two children, Allen, and Shelby.

William “Bill” McCall was twenty-nine when he was appointed a Deputy U.S. Marshal in 1889 for the Eastern District of Texas in Paris, Texas. For the next three years William McCall was an efficient officer and made many arrests.

In January of 1892, a group of four black men, Esau Gordon, Henderson Gordon, Nero Blue, and Washington Bruner, had been going up and down the Canadian River stealing whatever they could get their hands on. Numerous citizens were robbed, and dozens of horses stolen. Deputy Marshal William McCall was especially acquainted with gang member Esau Gordon from a previous encounter with him. The robberies occurred in the Chickasaw Nation which fell under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Marshal of the Eastern District of Texas. Several arrest warrants were issued for the gang members. Deputy Marshal William McCall along with three other deputies and two posse soon picked up the gang’s trail.

On Friday, January 29, 1892, shortly after dark, the lawmen arrived at Caesar Bruner’s house, located five miles northwest of Seminole, outside the town of Heliswa, Deputy Marshal William McCall went to the horse lot looking for the homeowner Caesar Bruner to make arrangements to feed the officers. Deputy Marshal William McCall was surprised to see Easu Gordon and three others there with Caesar Bruner. Esau Gordon recognized the lawman, drew his guns, and opened fire on the deputy marshal, who returned fire. The rest of the lawmen came running to the horse lot and opened fire on the outlaws. Deputy Marshal William McCall was wounded in the thigh by one of Easu Gordon’s bullets. Finally, the outlaws withdrew. Washington Bruner was found dead in the horse lot. Deputy Marshal William McCall was taken to the nearest doctor for treatment of his leg wound and it appeared he would survive. On Thursday, January 10, 1895, Deputy Marshal William McCall died in Allen, Indian Territory, according to medical reports, as a direct result of the leg wound sustained in the line of duty.

William W. McCall is buried in Allen Cemetery, Allen, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.

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Updated December 8, 2023

William L. “Bill” McClendon - Trooper

Oklahoma Highway Patrol  October 1, 2006

About 1:20 p.m. on Sunday, October 1, 2006, Trooper William McClendon, 37, was dispatched to an emergency call on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Claremore. While he was in route on the Will Rogers Turnpike, the call was canceled. Trooper William McClendon pulled to the shoulder of the turnpike in preparation for a turnaround. As Trooper McClendon attempted the turn through a concrete barrier opening his Dodge Charger patrol car was struck by an eighteen-wheel Peterbuilt tractor-trailer. Trooper William McClendon and the truck driver, Hussein Haji-ege Osman, 25, were both killed.

William McClendon had been a State Trooper for eight years and was survived by his wife Hope, and three children, Dakota, 17, Maverick, 13, and Kendra, 10.  

Trooper William McClendon is buried in Green Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma.

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Updated September 28, 2023

Jeffery Matthew "Jeff"  McCoy - Probation and Parole Officer

Oklahoma Department of Corrections May 18, 2012

On Friday, May 18, 2012, a little before noon, Probation and Parole Officer Jeffery McCoy, 32, went to the address of 1440 Maple Drive in Midwest City for an unannounced visit with one of his clients. Another man named Lester E. Kinchlon, 21, answered the door of the residence and immediately knocked Probation and Parole Officer Jeffery McCoy off the porch. The two men fought into the street where Officer Jeffery McCoy was knocked unconscious, and Lester Kinchlon was able to take control of Officer McCoy’s service weapon and shot McCoy in the head killing him. When Midwest City Police arrived Lester Kinchlon fired several shots at them.

Jeffery McCoy had been a state probation and parole officer for seven years.

Jeffery McCoy was survived by his wife Megan, their son, Alex, 7, and their daughter Allie, age 4.  

Jeffery McCoy is buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

In December 2012, Lester Kinchlon plead guilty to First Degree Murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Lester Kinchlon also pled guilty on two weapons charges and was sentenced to another life in prison term plus ten years.

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Updated May 8. 2024

Kenneth Glenn McCullough - Special Agent

U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration  April 19, 1995

Special Agent Kenneth McCullough, 36, served in the U.S. Army for six years, 1980 to 1986, leaving at the rank of Captain. McCullough then worked for the Defense Investigative Service before becoming a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent for the last five years before he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. Wednesday, April 19, 1995.

Special Agent Kenneth McCullough was survived by his wife Sharon, a son and a daughter.

Kenneth McCullough is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

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Updated April 17, 2024

William Bartlett McDaniel - Posse, Deputy U.S. Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service March 16, 1895

William McDaniel was born in Parke County, Indiana on December 8, 1847. William was the fourth of five sons born to Nathan and Elva (Hoggart) McDaniel.

From 1860 to 1883 William lived with his brother Clark. William McDaniel served nine months under General George Custer in the Apache War.

In the fall of 1883 William McDaniel moved to the Indian Territory where he had a large ranch about six miles northwest of Nowata and did extensive livestock business.

On Friday March 15, 1895, William McDaniel, 47, was sworn in as part of a posse formed by Deputy U.S. Marshal James Mayes to capture Bob Rogers who was wanted for cattle stealing, train robbery and murder. Deputy Marshal Mayes had located Bob Rogers at his father’s house at Horseshoe Mound in Indian Territory, twenty miles south of Coffeyville, Kansas and about three miles north of Nowata.

Early the next morning, Saturday, March 16th about 4 a.m. the posse surrounded the Rogers house. Deputy Marshal Hayes along with posse William McDaniel, Phil Williams, and two other posse entered the Rogers’ house.  Inside the house the officers met Charles Collier who was staying there. Collier advised the officers that Bob Rogers and his father were sleeping upstairs. Deputy Marshal Mayes called for the two men to come downstairs with their hands up. After a few minutes old man Rogers came down the stairs. Bob Rogers yelled to the officers to come get him. Old man Rogers was ordered to lead the officers up the stairs followed by Deputy Marshal James Mayes, Phil Williams, and William McDaniel. As the four men neared the top of the stairs Bob Rogers opened fire on them. One shot hit Posse William McDaniel in the heart killing him instantly. Another shot wounded Posse Phil Williams in the arm. Mayes and Williams retreated outside. There they ordered Bob Rogers to come out. Bob Rogers stepped out the front door, raised his rife and started firing at the officers. Bob Rogers was finally killed by the posse in the gun battle that followed in which over three-hundred rounds were fired.

Posse William McDaniel was not married so his body was sent back to his brother Clark McDaniel in Indiana for burial in Poplar Grove Cemetery, Marshal, Parke County, Indiana.

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Updated December 8, 2023

Claude H. McDonald - Special Detective

Rock Island Railroad March 26, 1911

Claude McDonald, 30, had served as a Canadian County Deputy Sheriff and an El Reno Police Officer before becoming a Special Officer with the Rock Island Railroad. McDonald had been a Rock Island officer for seven years and was the head of their Secret Service in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas for the past two years prior to March 25, 1911. Special Detective Claude McDonald and his cousin Charlie McCain, also a Special Officer, went to Chickasha that Saturday night, arriving about 11 p.m. to investigate a series of box car burglaries. There were four strings of box cars in the yard that night and while searching them the two officers separated so they could walk on either side of each row of cars.

The officers started off walking opposite each other but Claude McDonald it seems fell back. About 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning Charlie McCain saw a large man walking the opposite direction on the other side of a car then moments later three-gun shots were heard. Special Detective Claude McDonald was found dead, face down with a bullet through his heart. McDonald’s gun was in his hand and had been fired once.

Claude McDonald was survived by Pearl, his wife of less than two years, and their three-month-old son, Joseph.

Claude McDonald is buried in El Reno Cemetery, El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma.

Two months later, on Monday, May 29th, a black man named Walton “Will” Roberts was caught in the act of stealing from a box car in the Chickasha railroad yards. Roberts was shot as he ran from pursuing officers and died from his wounds on June 2nd. Before he died Walton Roberts gave a full confession to killing Special Detective Claude McDonald as well as a Tyler, Texas police officer several years earlier.

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Updated March 17, 2024

Henry McGillv- Deputy Sheriff

Tishomingo County, Chickasaw Nation, I.T. November 3, 1883

On Saturday night November 3, 1883, Tishomingo County Sheriff Jep Fry and Deputy Sheriff Henry McGill were attempting to arrest Edmiston Parker, who was drunk and firing his gun, when Edmiston Parker shot Deputy Sheriff Henry McGill. Edmiston Parker then emptied his gun shooting at Sheriff Jep Fry who was able to escape unharmed. Edmiston Parker then took the wounded Deputy Sheriff Henry McGill’s gun and shot McGill three more times, killing him. Edmiston Parker then fell to his knees beside Deputy Sheriff McGill’s body and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with the deputy sheriff’s gun.

The burial site of Deputy Sheriff Henry McGill is unknown.

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Updated October 30, 2023

Andrew Madison McGinnisv- Special  Deputy Sheriff

Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office  September 18, 1932

Around dusk on Sunday September 18, 1932, Deputy Sheriff Andrew McGinnis was a member of a posse that had trapped Tom Carlisle and Troy Love, the two remaining fugitives wanted for a murder a few weeks earlier and the killing of Deputy Sheriff Webster Reece the day before.

The two fugitives were in some woods south of Tahlequah. The two men started firing at the posse. Deputy Sheriff Andrew McGinnis and Rogers County Deputy Sheriff J. Hurt Flippin charged at the fugitives and were shot down. The rest of the posse then shot and killed the two fugitives. Deputy Sheriff Andrew McGinnis was dead at the scene and Deputy Sheriff J. Hurt Flippin died the next morning, September 19th.

Andrew McGinnis was survived by his wife Myrtle and five children and is buried in Oktaha Cemetery, Oktaha, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

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Updated September 14, 2023

John Lee McHenry – Deputy U. S. Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service December 26, 1895

On Christmas Day 1896 Lem Young and one of the Lauderdale brothers, either Tom or Mose, got in a fight in the cabin the two men shared on Blue River, about thirty miles east of Caddo in the Choctaw Nation. During the fight Lem Young pulled a gun on Lauderdale. Later that day Lem Young gave himself up to Deputy U.S. Marshal C. R. V. Hamilton.

The next day, December 26, 1895, Deputy Marshal Hamilton and his posse John Slaughter went to the cabin with Lem Young to collect witnesses and take them and Young before the Commissioner in Atoka for a preliminary examining trial.

Deputy Marshal John McHenry had a warrant for Lem Young for larceny of hogs and learned that Deputy Marshal Hamilton, had arrested Lem Young and was at the cabin on Blue River. Deputy McHenry had killed Lem Young’s brother several months before.

Deputy John McHenry with his posse went to the cabin and demanded that Deputy Marshal Hamilton turn Lem Young over to him. Deputy Marshal Hamilton told Deputy Marshal John McHenry he would not relinquish Lem Young even though McHenry held an arrest warrant. It is unknown who drew first, but a gun battle followed during which Deputy Marshal John McHenry and Lem Young were killed.

Murder warrants were issued for all eight men involved in the gun battle. The six charged with killing Lem Young were Sam McHenry, Jimmie Jones, Tom and Mose Lauderdale, Frank McGahey, and Jim Bowlin. Charged with killing Deputy Marshal John McHenry was Deputy C. R. V. Hamilton and his posse John Slaughter.

On Thursday, January 2, 1896, an examination was conducted before the U.S. Commissioner in Paris, Texas. After hearing the evidence, the U.S. Commissioner bound Sam McHenry over for trial and released the other five men charged with killing Lem Young.

Deputy Marshal C. R. V. Hamilton and his pose John Slaughter were remanded to jail without bond.

Later in January, another hearing was conducted, and bail was set at $5,000 for Sam McHenry, which was soon posted by his friends, and he was released. Bail again was refused for C. R. V. Hamilton and John Slaughter.

It appears from a newspaper article that all three men were acquitted in later trials but actual trial disposition of the murder cases against, Sam McHenry, C. R. V. Hamilton and John Slaughter are unknown as no record can be found of further action by the courts due to a large fire on March 21, 1916, which destroyed almost half of the Paris, Texas business district including the federal courthouse and newspaper offices.

On Saturday, March 28, 1896, the two-year-old child of Deputy Marshal John McHenry was killed when it accidentally fell out of a buggy in Denison, Texas and broke its neck.

The burial site of Deputy U.S. Marshal John McHenry or his child are unknown.

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Updated December 23, 2023

Herbert “Heavy Duty” McIntosh, Jr. -  Corporal

McAlester Police Department  May 9, 1984

About 6:00 a.m. the morning of Wednesday, May 9, 1984, Corporal Herbert McIntosh was finishing his 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. “Hoot Shift” when he met his shift Captain, William D. Faries, at the police station and asked if he could ride with him the remainder of the shift. This was not an uncommon request.

Captain William Faries and Corporal Herbert McIntosh left the station to patrol the streets a little longer before getting off shift. A few minutes after leaving the police station Captain Faries heard Herbert McIntosh make a sound like a snore. Captain Faries joked about Herbert McIntosh sleeping and when Captain Faries touched Corporal McIntosh’s arm to shake him, Faries felt that McIntosh was warm and clammy. Corporal Herbert McIntosh then fell over against Captain William Faries’ right shoulder. Captain Faries immediately proceeded to the hospital where Corporal Herbert McIntosh was pronounced dead of a heart attack minutes later.

Herbert McIntosh, Jr. had been a McAlester Police Officer for almost eleven years and was a popular officer especially with the youth of the city whom he worked with off duty.

Corporal Herbert McIntosh was survived by his wife Mary, 3 sons and a daughter.

Herbert McIntosh, Jr. is buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

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Updated May 6, 2024

Mose McIntosh – Posse, Deputy U. S. Marshal / Officer

U. S. Marshal Service / Creek Nation Lighthorse  November 9, 1888

On Friday morning, November 9, 1888, Deputy Marshal Mose McIntosh, a Creek Indian, was a member of a large posse that had divided up into three groups to check houses for the outlaw Wesley Barnett and his gang.

As the posse, of which Mose McIntosh was a member, approached the house of Abe Carr, north of Okmulgee, gunfire erupted from the house. Posse Mose McIntosh was shot from his horse and died. Two other posse were also wounded. The gun battle lasted into the night. The next morning the posse found the outlaws had escaped.

Posse Mose McIntosh was also a member of the Creek Lighthorse.

The burial site of Deputy U.S. Marshal Posse Mose McIntosh is unknown.

Two months later outlaw Wesley Barnett was shot and killed by Deputy U. S. Marshal, Wallace McNac.

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Updated November 5, 2023

Abner David McLellan - Deputy U.S. Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service July 20, 1894

Abner David McLellan was the youngest of seven children born to Franklin and Dortha (Foster) McLellan. Abner was born in Abenezer, Jackson Parish, Louisiana about 1866. Abner married Susan Emily Black on February 10, 1892, in Caddo in Indian Territory.

The evening of Friday, July 20, 1894, Deputy Marshal Abner McLellan along with his Posse Jack Basie attempted to arrest Gerald Bryant, 19, and Jim Dice for stealing corn from John Hester’s farm, about ten miles west of Caddo in the Choctaw Nation. As Gerald Bryant and Jim Dice were leaving the Hester farm cornfield with several bags of corn, Deputy Marshal McLellan and his Posse Basie stepped out of their concealment and ordered the men to raise their hands and surrender. Instead, Gerald Bryant opened fire with his Colt .45 caliber revolver. Deputy Marshal Abner McLellan was hit fatally in the right shoulder by one of the shots, the bullet passing through his body and exiting his left side.

Gerald Bryant escaped to the Bradburn farm about six miles away. Jim Dice was taken into custody by a five member citizens posse, and he advised them where Gerald Bryant could be found. The next morning at daybreak the posse surrounded Bradburn’s house and ordered him to come out. Bradburn came out and advised the posse that he had not seen Gerald Bryant. The citizens posse then entered the Bradburn house as Gerald Bryant ran out the back of the house toward his horse. The citizens ordered Bryant to stop. Again, Gerald Bryant went for his .45 revolver, but Gerald Bryant and his horse were shot and killed by the posse of citizens.

Deputy U.S. Marshals from Paris, Texas investigated the shooting and found that the five citizens had no authority to arrest Gerald Bryant and arrested all five of the men for manslaughter. All five men were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison.

Deputy Marshal Abner McLellan was survived by his wife “Susie”, a six-month-old son Frank Black born December 25, 1893, and a soon to be born daughter, Abner David “Abbie” McLellan who was born February 2, 1895, six months after her father died.

Abner McLellan is buried in an unmarked grave in the old section of Caddo Cemetery, Caddo, Bryan County, Oklahoma but his exact grave location is unknown.

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Updated July 12, 2024

Thomas Blair McNulty – Private

U.S. Army Air Force Military Police December 18, 1943

Thomas McNulty was born Sunday, August 30, 1925, at Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania to James C. and May Edna (Mahoney) McNulty.

Thomas McNulty enlisted in the Army Air Force on January 31, 1943, and was assigned as a military police officer with the 1092nd Guard Squadron. On August 30, 1943, Thomas McNulty was assigned to Frederick Army Airfield at Frederick, Oklahoma.

About 6:45 a.m. Saturday, December 18, 1943, Private Thomas McNulty, 18, was a passenger in an army jeep driven by another military police officer making their morning patrol of the airfield. The driver lost control of the jeep and it overturned in a ditch injuring both officers. Both officers were transported to the airfield hospital where Private Thomas McNulty died of his injuries at 3:30 p.m. that Saturday afternoon. The other injured officer survived his injuries.

Private Thomas McNulty was survived by his parents, three sisters and two brothers.

Private Thomas McNulty’s body was shipped back to his parents in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania for burial at Saint Mary Cemetery, Pittsburg, Allegheny County.

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Updated December 12, 2023

John McWeir - Deputy U.S. Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service July 2, 1883

Deputy U.S. Marshals John McWeir and J. H. Wilkinson along with a cook, who doubled as a guard, were transporting a Creek Indian named Johnson Foster from the Fort Reno guardhouse to Fort Smith for trial on a charge of murder that occurred in the Pottawatomie Nation, which did not have a judicial system.

On Monday, July 2, 1883, the group made camp near the Osage Agency at Pawhuska. Deputy Marshal J. H. Wilkinson and the guard went to the agency to pick up other prisoners leaving Deputy Marshal John McWeir with the prisoner Johnson Foster. When Deputy Marshal Wilkinson and the guard returned to the camp later that day with the additional prisoners, they found Deputy Marshal John McWeir dead from several gunshot wounds and his head almost severed by an axe. Johnson Foster was missing along with Deputy Marshal McWeir’s guns and all the ammunition in camp.

The burial site of Deputy U.S. Marshal John McWeir is unknown.

Johnson Foster was shot and killed a few weeks later by friends of two brothers he had robbed and killed.

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Updated June 27, 2024

William Charles "Charley" Meachum - Detective
Tulsa Police Department June 8, 1920

Wiliam C. Meachum was born May 21, 1883, in Independence County, Arkansas. He married Mary Honor Welch in 1903.

On Tuesday, June 1, 1920, about 6 p.m. Detective William Meachum was advised by one of his informants where a fugitive named George H. Smith might be located. Detective Meachum located George Smith about 7 p.m. in downtown Tulsa and arrested him. Detective Meachum searched Smith and removed a gun. Detective Meachum then went to a call box with his prisoner Smith and while calling in for transportation, George Smith shot Detective William Meachum three times with a second gun that Detective Meachum apparently missed in his initial search.

George Smith escaped, and Detective William Meachum died a week later at 8 a.m. the morning of Tuesday, June 8th.

George Smith was killed in a shootout with police officers in Kansas City, Missouri on June 19th.

Detective William Meachum had turned in his resignation papers with the Tulsa Police Department at noon the day he was shot to become the City Marshal of Bigheart.

William Meachum was survived by his wife Mary and six children, three sons and three daughters, the oldest being 15-year-old son Lonnie William.

Detective William Meachum is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas.

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Updated August 2, 2024

Claude Arthur Medearis - Senior Special Agent in Charge

U. S. Customs Service April 19, 1995

Senior Special Agent Claude Medearis, 41, was transferred to the Oklahoma City U.S. Customs field office in 1992, from Texas where he had served as a U.S. Customs Agent along the Texas-Mexico border between Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas.

Agent Claude Medearis was promoted to Senior Special Agent in Charge of the Oklahoma City U.S. Customs office shortly before his death in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. the morning of Wednesday, April 19, 1995.

Senior Special Agent Claude Medearis was survived by his wife Sharon, son Michael, daughter Catherine and four grandchildren.

Claude Medearis’ earthly remains were cremated.

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Updated April 17, 2024

Edwin Carter “E.C.” Meek – Deputy U.S. Marshal

U.S. Marshal Service

 Edwin Meek was born in 1851 in Hancock County, Indiana. At the age of twenty-seven Edwin married sixteen-year-old Emma Cecilla Steinberger on February 15, 1874, at Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas. In 1880 Edwin and Emma were living in Timber Creek Township, in Marshall County, Iowa, with their three children, Otto, 5, Fred, 2, and Mattie, just a few months old. Sometime later Edwin and Emma moved their family to the town of Perry, in Indian Territory. On March 21, 1892, Edwin Meeks was administered the oath of office as a Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas.

On Friday, April 13, 1894, Deputy Marshal Edwin Meek and a friend, A. T. McSpadden, arrived in Gainesville, Texas on their way back home to Perry from Clifton, Texas. Earlier that day J. W. Crews had killed a man named Murrell, his wife and son in Gainesville. Many of the towns’ citizens were out searching for Crews. Deputy Marshal Meek got a good description of J. W. Crews and planned to arrest him if they saw him. The next day, April 14th Deputy Marshal Meek and McSpadden continued their trip north into Indian Territory. Not far into the Indian Territory near Marietta, Deputy Marshal Meek and McSpadden spotted J. W. Crews walking with a Winchester rifle. Deputy Marshal Meek jumped off the wagon, borrowed a shot gun and pursued Crews into the underbrush. A. T. McSpadden pulled the wagon and horse team off the road and was approached by the woman Deputy Marshal Meek had borrowed the shotgun from. She advised that the shotgun was only loaded with bird shot. McSpadden ran and caught up with Deputy Marshal Meek and advised him of the load in the shotgun. McSpadden then went in search of a gun for himself. Shortly afterwards McSpadden heard shots and could tell they were from a shotgun and a rifle. McSpadden returned to the area where he last saw his friend Meek and soon found Deputy Marshal Meek dead from rifle wounds.

Later it would be learned that J. W. Crews walked down the railroad tracks toward Thackerville, was arrested that same evening and that he was wounded twice by Deputy Marshal Meek before he died.

Deputy Marshal Edwin Meek was survived by his wife Emma, and their four children, Otto, 19, Fred, 17, Matty Mae, 14, and Glen , 3.

Edwin C. Meek is buried at Grace Hill Cemetery, Perry, Noble County, Oklahoma.

The year of death on Edwin C. Meek’s grave marker, 1893, is wrong.

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Updated August 4, 2024

Melvin "Cleo" Meeks - Deputy Sheriff

Washita County Sheriff’s Office     October 21, 1967

Melvin Cleo Meeks was born at Enville, Love County, Oklahoma on October 12, 1913, to Volnie Sharon and Gertrude (Nix) Meeks.

Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meeks, 54, had been a Washita County Deputy Sheriff almost twelve years on Saturday, October 21, 1967. About 8 p.m. that evening Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meeks was assisting Kiowa County Deputy Sheriff Virgil Weitner in serving an arrest warrant on Michael Caldwell, 19, in Hobart in Kiowa County, for a burglary in Washita County. As the two deputy sheriffs approached the Caldwell house the young man’s father, Sid Caldwell, opened fire on the deputies, wounding both.  Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meeks was shot in the head and chest. Young Michael Caldwell dragged the wounded deputies to safety and called police and medical assistance, but Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meeks died before help could arrive.

Deputy Sheriff Virgil Weitner survived his wounds.

Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meeks was survived by his wife Glennis Madge (Chambers) and three adult daughters and is buried in Lawnview Cemetery, Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma.

Sid Caldwell was arrested for Deputy Sheriff Cleo Meek’s murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

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Updated October 19, 2023

Adam Michael Mehagan - Deputy Sheriff

Osage County Sheriff’s Office December 2, 2009

Adam M. Mehagan was born January 25, 1984, at Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma to Michael Ray and Patricia Ann (Catlin) Mehagan. Adam Mehagan married Amber Jean Woods on July 5, 2008, in Owasso.

Adam Mehagan started his law enforcement career with the Wichita Falls, Texas as a correctional officer until May 2005 when he joined the Washington County Sheriff’s Office as a detention officer and dispatcher. In 2007 Adam Mehagan became a Pawhuska Police Officer where he worked until 2008. In early 2009 Adam Mehegan joined the Osage County Sheriff’s Office as a Deputy Sheriff.

At 11:30 p.m. the night of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan, 25, received a call to back another Deputy Sheriff on a burglary in progress call. At 11:50 p.m. the assigned Deputy Sheriff advised that his back up unit could disregard (10-22) as everything was ok at the scene. The county dispatcher tried to advise Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan but could get no response. Shorty after midnight other units started looking for Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan. Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan and his county unit were located about 12:10 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Mehagan had failed to negotiate an S curve while north bound on County Road 1475 a mile south of County Road 1401 and one and a half miles north of Prue in the far southern part of Osage County. Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan’s 2006 Ford Crown Victoria squad car had rolled twice ejecting him. Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan died at the scene shortly before midnight from his injuries. Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan had been an Osage County Deputy Sheriff for nine months and had served with the Pawhuska Police Department and Washington County Sheriff’s Office prior to going to work for Osage County.

Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan was survived by his wife Amber and eleven-month-old daughter Lena Rea.

Deputy Sheriff Adam Mehagan is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma.

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Updated November 29, 2023

Guy Mercer - Sheriff

Texas County Sheriff’s Office December 11, 1948

On Thursday afternoon, December 9, 1948, Sheriff Guy Mercer was transporting a prisoner, J. L. Morris, from Tahoka, Texas back to Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Just south of Amarillo, Texas at the intersection of Canyon Highway and Western Avenue a north bound truck on Canyon Highway slowed and turned left on to Western Avenue causing Sheriff Mercer, who was south bound on Canyon Highway, to go left of center to avoid striking the truck and hit an oncoming north bound car head on.

The prisoner J. L. Morris died shortly after the vehicle crash. Sheriff Guy Mercer, 50, died two days later the evening of Saturday, December 11th from his injuries in an Amarillo hospital.

Guy Mercer had served four years as Chief of Police of Hooker before being elected Texas County Sheriff. Sheriff Guy Mercer had been defeated in his bid for re-election and had twenty-two more days to serve as Sheriff.

Sheriff Guy Mercer was survived by his wife Zephry and adult son Richard and is buried in Hooker Cemetery, Hooker, Texas County, Oklahoma.

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Updated December 9, 2023

Lewis Merritt, Posseman - Deputy U.S. Marshal

U.S. Marshal Service  September 27, 1883

By 1883 Addison Beck had been a Deputy U.S. Marshal working out of the Fort Smith court for eight years and promised his wife he would find a safer occupation after one more trip to the Indian Territory. During that last trip Deputy U.S. Marshal Addison Beck and his posse Lewis Merritt were looking for John Bart (or Bark) for whiskey violations.

About 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 27, 1883, the officers located John Bart working in a corn field with Johnson Jacks near Big Vienne, east of Webbers Falls and about forty miles from Fort Smith. As the two federal officers approached the men a gun battle broke out and Deputy U.S. Marshal Addison Beck was shot in the head and killed instantly. Posse Lewis Merritt was wounded in the chest and head and was still alive when a wounded Johnson Jacks approached Posse Lewis Merritt and shot him several more times before beating his head in with a gun.

Posse Lewis Merritt is buried next to Deputy U.S. Marshal Addison Beck in Oak Cemetery, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas.

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Updated August 6, 2024

Donald Heath Meyer – Lieutenant

Oklahoma Highway Patrol  July 24, 2017

About 10:20 p.m. the night of Friday, July14, 2017, Lieutenant “Heath” Meyer, 43, responded to a high-speed pursuit coming north on Interstate-35 from Norman. Lieutenant Meyer had just laid stop sticks out on the north bound lanes of I-35 near North 27th Street in Moore when the fleeing vehicle, being pursued by State Troopers Rodney Rideaux and Clint Painter, tried to avoid the stop sticks. The pursuing troopers also attempted to avoid the stop sticks but their Oklahoma Highway Patrol units struck one another. Trooper Painter's vehicle went off the roadway and struck Lieutenant “Heath” Meyer, critically injuring him. Lieutenant Meyer was transported to the OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City where he died from his injuries the evening of Monday, July 24, 2017.

Lieutenant Donald “Heath” Meyer, a twelve-year veteran of the highway patrol, was survived by his wife Melissa “Missy” and daughters, Isabelle, and Lily.

Lieutenant Donald “Heath” Meyer is buried in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

The driver of the fleeing vehicle, Dangelo Ladon Burgess, 28, was taken into custody shortly after Lieutenant Meyer was struck and injured. Dangelo Burgess was tried, found guilty of first-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison.

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Updated July 23, 2024

John "Two Guns" Middleton - Deputy Sheriff

Kay County Sheriff’s Office  July 22, 1923

About noon on Saturday, July 21, 1923, Deputy Sheriffs John “Two Gun” Middleton, 35, and George “Hookey” Miller went into a cafe in Three Sands. Seated at the counter of the café was Jackson Burns, who had been handled recently by both deputies. When Jackson Burns saw the two deputies enter the café, he began shooting at them with his .45 caliber revolver. Neither deputy had time to draw their weapons. Deputy Sheriff George Miller was hit three times, collapsed, and died on the way to the hospital. Deputy Sheriff John Middleton was also hit three times and died the next day, Sunday, July 22nd.

The burial site of John Middleton is unknown.

Jackson Burns was later tried and acquitted of killing Deputy Sheriff John Middleton and was never tried afterwards for the killing of Deputy Sheriff George Miller.

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Updated July 21, 2024

Oscar Mathew Milhollan – Detective

Oklahoma City Police Department

Oscar Milhollan was born in Missouri January 27, 1875, to Joseph C. and Sarah F. Anglin Milhollan. Oscar Milhollan moved to Oklahoma City in 1903 where he became a printer for The Daily Oklahoman newspaper. In 1920 he moved to Yukon and for six months was the editor and publisher of The Yukon Sun.

When Otto A. Cargill became Mayor of Oklahoma City in April 1923, Oscar Milhollan was appointed Desk Sergeant for the Oklahoma City Police Department. Milhollan was later transferred to plain clothes detective.

The afternoon of Thursday, January 24, 1924, Detective Oscar Milhollan collapsed in the police station. His condition was diagnosed as a “stroke of paralysis”, probably a cerebral hemorrhage. Detective Milhollan was taken to his home at 208 East 16th Street where he died at 1:45 a.m. the morning of Saturday, January 26, at the age of forty-eight years old.

Oscar Milhollan was survived by his wife Lorena and is buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Oscar Milhollan’s name was probably included on the original Oklahoma Peace Officers Memorial (now the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial) due to a page in the 1929 Oklahoma City Police Department Annual that listed fourteen officers whose families had collected on a $1,000 police insurance policy provided by an association of Oklahoma City Police officers for officers who died while on duty, even though they did not die in the line of duty. The 1929 Annual noted that six of the fourteen officer’s deaths “were due directly to the nature of their work.” By today’s standards, only two of the six officers, Briggs Chumley and A. L. Walton, meets the commonly accepted standards for a line of duty death. Nevertheless, the other four officers’ names were also engraved on the state’s Peace Officers Memorial when it was built in 1969. The other four officers are M. C. Hiatt, O. M. Milhollan, M. E. Shelton and W. M. Slaton.

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Updated August 6, 2024

George Daniel "Hookey" Miller - Deputy Sheriff

Kay County Sheriff’s Office  July 21, 1923

George D. Miller was born December 13, 1861, in Dallas County, Texas, to Stephen H. and Mary Ann “Polly” Miller. In 1885 George Miller married Nellie May (last name unknown). They had two sons before Nellie’s death in 1901.

While still a teenager George Miller served six months as a Texas Ranger in 1882. George afterwards moved to Oklahoma and joined the George “Red Buck” Weightman gang of outlaws. On March 5, 1896, Weightman and Miller had a shootout with a posse. Weightman was killed and Miller had most of his right hand shot away as well as the tips of three fingers on his left hand. George Miller served four years in prison before being paroled. While he was in prison Miller was fitted with a hook for his right hand and became known as “Hooky Miller”. Miller became proficient in handling guns with both hands.

George Miller eventually became a lawman and served for twenty years as a Deputy Sheriff for Kay County in the lawless oil town of Three Sands. Deputy Sheriffs George Miller and John “Two Gun” Middleton enforced the law and were hated by the oil workers and shady businessmen of the town. One of the oil workers, Jackson Burns, was once arrested by Deputy Sheriff Middleton for being drunk and was chained to a bed in a hotel room until he sobered up.

Jackson Burns held a grudge against the deputy ever since. Jackson Burns also had a girlfriend that was a prostitute and was ordered by the deputies to get her out of town. Burns had refused to get her out of town.

About noon on Saturday, July 21, 1923, Deputy Sheriffs George “Hookey” Miller, 55, and John “Two Gun” Middleton went into a cafe in Three Sands. Seated at the counter of the café was Jackson Burns, who had recently been handled by both deputies. When Jackson Burns saw the deputies enter the café, he began shooting at them with his .45 caliber revolver. Neither deputy had time to draw their weapons. Deputy Sheriff George Miller was hit three times, collapsed, and died on the way to the hospital.

Deputy Sheriff John Middleton was also hit three times and died the next day.

George Miller was survived by his two sons, George D., Jr. and James E. “Ed”.

George Miller is buried in Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Jackson Burns was later tried for the murder of Deputy Sheriff John Middleton and was acquitted of the killing. Burns was never tried afterwards for the killing of Deputy Sheriff George Miller.

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Updated February 8, 2024

Henry Miller, Guard - Deputy U.S. Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service April 9, 1886

About 3 p.m. on Friday, April 9, 1886, Deputy U.S. Marshal Guard Henry Miller,19, was one of a group of deputies who made camp near Flatwoods in the Cherokee Nation, about twenty-two miles from Fort Smith, Arkansas. The deputies were taking a Cherokee Indian outlaw named Big Chewey to Fort Smith for trial. Guard Henry Miller was left with the prisoner for a couple hours while the other deputies were away on business. When the other deputies returned, they found Guard Henry Miller dead. It appeared Miller’s head had been crushed from behind by an axe found lying next to him. The prisoner was trailed and recaptured about a mile from the camp. Apparently, Big Chewey was later tried in a Cherokee court and acquitted of the murder.

Henry Miller was survived by his parents and is buried in West Cemetery, Strang, Mayes County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 6, 2024

Kenneth Ellsworth Miller - Undersheriff

Beaver County Sheriff’s Office December 10, 1977

Kenneth Miller was born June 28, 1927, at Fairport, Russell County, Kansas to Eli Benton and Grace O. (McConnell) Miller. Kenneth Miller married Leta Lorene Doty on December 22, 1950, in Natoma, Kansas.

Kenneth Miller had been with the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office for five years by December 1977.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, December 10, 1977, Undersheriff Kenneth Miller was notified of two men trying to stop traffic. Undersheriff Miller and a friend, Danny Cambern, went to investigate.

The dispatcher was unable to make radio contact and sent other units to search for them. About half an hour later, they found Undersheriff Kenneth Miller and Danny Cambern north of Turpin on Highway 83 lying dead in a ditch. Both men had been shot in the head with a .22 caliber pistol. Undersheriff Kenneth Miller’s patrol car was missing, and a stolen station wagon was left nearby.

The suspects were two men, James E. Lewis, and David Richardson, who had escaped from the Wagoner County jail two weeks earlier. The suspects were arrested later in Utah after a high-speed chase. Both men were convicted of both murders and sentenced to life in prison.

Undersheriff Kenneth Miller was survived by his wife Leta “Lorene” and their four daughters, Kenna, Leta, Marsha, and Paula.

Kenneth Miller is buried in the Beaver Pioneer Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 10, 2024

Lucky Christian Miller - Chief

Mannford Police Department November 10, 2019

Lucky Miller, 44, had been the Chief of Police at Mannford since 2007.

Chief Lucky Miller and Mannford Detective Michael Nealey, 49, were in Pensacola Beach, Florida the weekend of November 9, 2019, to attend a conference on death scene investigations starting Monday.

At about 9:50 p.m. Sunday, November 10th police were called to the hotel room of Chief Lucky Miller and Detective Michael Nealey at the Hilton Hotel in Pensacola Beach after hotel security had received complaints of a loud disturbance in their room earlier. Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the call. Deputies found Chief Lucky Miller dead with his face severely beaten and other injuries. Detective Michael Nealey was found lying across the room from Chief Miller mumbling, his right hand swollen and red.

Chief Lucky Miller was survived by his wife Amber and their children, sons Kale, 18, Logan, 16, and daughter Carly, 10.

Lucky Miller is buried in the Stroud Cemetery, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.

Detective Michael Nealey was charged with second degree murder. In March 2021, Michael Nealey was found guilty of Second-Degree Murder in the death of Chief Lucky Miller and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.

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Updated November 5, 2023

Michael Grant Miller - Drig Enforcement Agent

U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs August 28, 1995

On Monday August 28, 1995, BIA Drug Enforcement Agent Michael Miller, 34, was a member of a multi-agency drug task force targeting marijuana growers and traffickers in the Tulsa / Bixby area of the state. Agent Michael Miller was an observer in an Oklahoma National Guard helicopter flown by Chief Warrant Officer Dennis Laffick, 49. The helicopter was one of two being used that day to conduct airborne searches for marijuana fields and suspects.

About 2:30 p.m. that Monday afternoon their helicopter struck some power lines and crashed instantly killing both Agent Michael Miller and pilot Dennis Laffick.

Agent Michael Miller was survived by his wife, Gerri, and their five children and is buried in Mount Scott Cemetery, Meers, Comanche County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 26, 2023

Nimrod Johnson Miller - Sheriff

Burnet County, Texas September 1, 1881

In late August of 1881 Sheriff Nimrod Miller, 37, left Burnet County, Texas for Pauls Valley in the Indian Territory (I.T.) in search of a man named W. P. Brown who was wanted for a murder that occurred in Burnet County in February 1876. Sheriff Nimrod Miller was last seen on Thursday, September 1, 1881, in Dennison and Sherman, Texas area headed to the Indian Territory. Shortly after that reports of the death of Sheriff Nimrod Miller in the Indian Territory were received but Miller’s body and the circumstances of his death were never found.

In August of 1882, there was an unsubstantiated report of a man named Sam Paul, who was in the Ft. Smith jail, stating that he witnessed the killing of a Sheriff Nimrod Miller in Chickasaw County (I.T.) by a Sam S. Wood.

Sheriff Nimrod Miller was survived by his wife Pollie and seven children.

The burial site of Sheriff Nimrod Miller is unknown.

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Updated August 30, 2023

William “Will” Miller - Officer

Bureau of Indian Affairs

U.S. Department of the Interior May 4, 1919

On Sunday morning, May 4, 1919, Officer William Miller along with Agent Will Mayes, Field Inspector for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, went to the Kiamichi Hills near Sherwood in the northern part of McCurtain County with the purpose of raiding a moonshine still operated by a man named West Henry.

Both officers were killed from ambush when they were each shot in the back twice with a 30-30 caliber rifle and Officer William Miller was also shot once in the face with a shotgun by West Henry. Officer William Miller apparently was able to turn and fire one shot from his revolver before being shot in the face.

West Henry soon after surrendered himself to the county sheriff and admitted the killings but stated it was self-defense. West Henry was acquitted at trial of the murders of both officers.

Officer William Miller was survived by his wife.

Officer William Miller and Inspector Will Mayes are buried together in an unmarked grave in Holly Creek Cemetery, Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

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Benjamin Franklin Milligan - Deputy Sheriff

Cimarron County Sheriff’s Office    January 7, 1909

Benjamin F. Milligan was born October 31, 1847, at Savanah, Hardin County, Tennessee. Benjamin Milligan served two years with the Confederate Army. On August 4, 1872, Benjamin Milligan married Gemima Jane “ Jennie” Crockett. Seven children were born to this union.

At about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 7, 1909, Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Milligan, 60, arrested Ezra Revis in a feed yard in Boise City to return him to Dalhart, Texas where he had jumped bond. Ezra Revis asked Deputy Sheriff Milligan if he could use the restroom before leaving the feed yard. Deputy Sheriff Milligan allowed Revis to go and waited outside for him. When Ezra Revis came out of the restroom, he had a pistol and shot Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Milligan in the side with the bullet piercing his heart and killing him. Ezra Revis then stole a nearby horse and rode west out of town never to be seen again.

Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Milligan was survived by his wife Jennie, two adult sons, James and William and an adult daughter, Mattie Lynn. eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Benjamin Milligan is buried in Boise City Cemetery, Boise City, Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

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Updated January 5, 2024

Eugene Henry Mills - Patrolman

Oklahoma City Police Department

About 4 a.m. the morning of Thursday, December 11, 1954, Officer Eugene Mills, 25, and his partner Officer Kenneth Dunlap responded to a drunken domestic disturbance in the 3200 block of North Shartel. The officers found two men, Billy D. Spradlin and John C. Copeland, fighting with their wives. The officers eventually arrested the two men. Billy Spradlin began fighting with Officer Eugene Mills and got possession of Mills’ gun. Officer Kenneth Dunlap leaned over his partner and Billy Spradlin as they wrestled on the ground and pointed his gun at Spradlin who slapped it, causing it to discharge. Officer Eugene Mills was struck in the left chest by the bullet and died.

Officer Eugene Mills was survived by his wife Cletus and three young daughters and is buried in Sunnylane Cemetery, Del City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

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April 10, 2021

Thomas Ernest Milstead - Humane Officer

Tulsa Police Department Dog Pound   November 30, 1961

On Wednesday, May 11, 1960, Edward Schoonover went to the Tulsa Dog Pound to pick up a dog for a friend. Officer Thomas Milstead, 60, advised him that he could not pick the dog up until the next day. Edward Schoonover left after a heated argument, went home, got a gun, returned, and shot Officer Thomas Milstead. Officer Thomas Milstead’s spine was severed by the bullet and died Wednesday, November 30, 1960, from his wound.

Officer Thomas Milstead was survived by his wife Ethel and is buried in Hampton Cemetery, Edhube, Fannin County, Texas.

Edward Schoonover was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and was admitted to Eastern State Mental Hospital.

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Updated August 6, 2024

Melvin Oliver Miner - Officer

Norman Police Department  July 31, 1972

On Sunday evening about 8 p.m., July 30, 1972, Norman police officers chased Orben Gill, Jr. to a mobile home park near Stubbeman Avenue. Orben Gill had just shot and killed his parents east of Noble. Orben Gill, Jr. opened fire with a shotgun on the approaching officers.

Officer Robert Brown was wounded in the arm and Officer Melvin Miner, 25, was struck in the head and died just after midnight the next morning, July 31st, at St Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Melvin Miner had only been a Norman officer for seven months and was survived by his wife Raetta and 3-year-old son Corey Lane.

Officer Melvin Miner is buried in Red Rock Cemetery, Red Rock, Noble County, Oklahoma.

Twenty-two years after his father’s death Corey Lane Miner would become an Officer with the Norman Police Department, later he became an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper, then later would become an Assistance District Attorney.

Orben Gill, Jr. was sentenced to three life sentences in prison, one for each of the three murders. Orben C. Gill, Jr. served forty-three years before he died in prison on August 15, 2015.

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Updated August 8, 2023

Charles Nicholas "Nick" Mitchell - Deputy Sheriff

Mayes County Sheriff’s Office December 24, 1908

Just before 8 p.m. Christmas Eve of 1908, Deputy Sheriff Charles Mitchell was attending a Christmas program at the Hogan Institute, fifteen miles southeast of Pryor and had gone outside to quite a disturbance. Soon several shots were heard, and several people came out to find Deputy Sheriff Charles Mitchell dead from three gunshot wounds, one being to the head. Three brothers named Frye were later arrested and charged with Deputy Sheriff Charles Mitchell’s murder.

Deputy Charles Mitchell was survived by his wife Susan and is buried in Hogan Cemetery, Locust Grove, Mayes County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 6, 2024

Lawrence Brandon Mitchell - Detective

Tulsa Police Department  July 22, 1934

Just after 11:30 p.m. the night of Sunday, July 22, 1934, Detective Lawrence Mitchell and his partner, W. L. Martin, were checking a report of a suspicious person in a car near a drug store at Latimer and Main Streets. As the two detectives approached the car, the car’s occupant, James Hargus, opened fire on the officers. Detective Lawrence Mitchell was hit twice, one shot being to his heart, and he soon died at the scene. Detective W. L. Martin was also wounded but was able to wound James Hargus four times. Both Detective W. L. Martin and James Hargus survived their gunshot wounds.

Lawrence Mitchell is buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

James Hargus was found guilty of Detective Lawrence Mitchell’s murder, sentenced to death, and died in the state’s electric chair on April 24, 1936.

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Updated July 21, 2024

Lem E. Mitchell, - Sheriff

Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Office  February 10, 1906

Lem Mitchell had served as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma Territory and as City Marshal of Ada prior to being elected to two terms as Sheriff of Pontotoc County.

Just before noon on Tuesday, February 10, 1914, Sheriff Lem Mitchell was returning to Ada by train from taking some prisoners to the state prison in McAlester. Close connections were necessary at Tupelo. Sheriff Lem Mitchell’s connecting train was already starting to move out when Sheriff Mitchell arrived at the station. Sheriff Lem Mitchell attempted to board the moving train, but his foot slipped, and Sheriff Mitchell was thrown beneath the moving passenger car, crushing his left leg just above the ankle. A local doctor tried to save Mitchell’s life by amputating his leg, but Sheriff Lem Mitchell died about 6 p.m. that evening.

Sheriff Lem Mitchell was survived by his wife Alice and daughter Bonnie and is buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.

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Updated February 4, 2024

Z  William “Bill” Moody- Deputy U S Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service March 15, 1889

About 11 a.m. on Friday, March 15, 1889, Deputy Marshals “Bill” Moody, Bob Dalton, and a posse rode out to the Berryhill home near the Arkansas River ten miles northwest of Tulsa to serve an arrest warrant for murder on Jess Berryhill. As the officers approached the Berryhill house they were fired upon by an Indian named William Bruner. Deputy Marshal “Bill” Moody was shot in the chest near the heart and Deputy Marshal Bob Dalton was wounded in one arm. Deputy Marshal “Bill” Moody was able to ride about twenty yards, dismount and take cover before dying next to Deputy Marshal Bob Dalton who had taken cover with him. When Deputy Marshal Bob Dalton and the posse threatened to burn the house down the men inside came out and surrendered.

Deputy Marshal “Bill” Moody was buried the next day in Tulsa the exact location of his grave is unknown.

Jess Berryhill was later acquitted, and William Bruner was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Bob Dalton’s brother Frank was killed in the line of duty as a Deputy U.S. Marshal two years earlier. Bob Dalton would later turn outlaw with his other brothers.  

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Updated March 8, 2024

Eugene Williams Mooney - Sheriff

Baxter County, Arkansas October 5, 1907

On Saturday, October 5, 1907, Sheriff Eugene Mooney, 33, and his cousin Deputy Sheriff J. H. Conley were transporting an escaped prisoner named Will Estes by train from New Mexico back to Baxter County, Arkansas to face a charge of burglary. Sheriff Eugene Mooney had spent the previous night with his brother Doctor Jesse Mooney in McLoud, I.T.

The two officers and their prisoner were seated at the front of the passenger coach car they were riding in. Their prisoner, Will Estes, was seated next to the window handcuffed to an iron pipe attached to the wall of the train. Sheriff Eugene Mooney was seated next to him on his left in the aisle seat, facing the coach door. The seat facing them was vacant. Deputy Sheriff Conley was seated directly behind the prisoner to keep an eye on the other passengers.

About 12:30 p.m. as the train was pulling into Holdenville, I.T.  Sheriff Eugene Mooney leaned out the window next to the vacant seats to look around. In doing so Sheriff Mooney’s Colt .44 caliber revolver fell from his pocket and discharged as it hit the floor of the train. The bullet struck Sheriff Eugene Mooney just above the heart and lodged in his right shoulder. Deputy Sheriff J. H. Conley and the prisoner tried to help Sheriff Money.

Sheriff Mooney’s brother, Doctor Jesse Mooney, was sent for but by the time he arrived in Holdenville about 8 p.m. that night Sheriff Eugene Mooney was already dead.

Sheriff Eugene Mooney was survived by his wife Malinda and their eight children and is buried in Gassville Cemetery, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas.

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Updated October 2, 2023

Eugene Clyde Moore - Deputy Sheriff

Atoka County Sheriff’s Office August 5, 1932

The evening of Friday, August 5, 1932, Deputy Sheriff Eugene Moore, and Sheriff C. G. Maxwell were at a dance in Stringtown, six miles north of Atoka, to keep the peace. Soon the officers noticed two men drinking in a parked car. As the officers approached the car the occupants, Clyde Barrow, Everett Milligan, and Raymond Hamilton, opened fire killing Deputy Sheriff Eugene Moore and seriously wounding Sheriff C. G. Maxwell. Deputy Sheriff Eugene Moore became the first of ten law enforcement officers to be slain by what would become the Bonnie and Clyde gang.

Eugene Moore was survived by his wife Minnie, and their three children, Charline, 8, Billy June, 6, and baby Dwight Russel, less than 9 months old.

Eugene Moore is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Calera, Bryan County, Oklahoma.

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot and killed by officers in Louisiana on May 23, 1934.

Raymond Hamilton was put to death by electrocution in Texas in January 1935.

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Updated August 5, 2023

Samuel. Robert "Bert" Moore - Deputy Sheriff

Pawnee County Sheriff’s Office January 12, 1915

Shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 1915, three unmasked men were robbing the First National Bank of Terlton. A customer was able to go out a back door and alerted the townspeople. A posse was quickly formed, including Deputy Sheriff Samuel Moore, which followed the robbers as they came out of the bank with two customers as shields. The robbers had gone about a quarter of a mile to where their horses were tied when Deputy Sheriff Samuel Moore, 39, tried to take a shot at them but instead was himself shot in the heart and killed by one of the robbers with a Winchester rifle.

Deputy Sheriff Samuel Moore was survived by his wife and four children.

Samuel Moore is buried in Jennings Cemetery, Jennings, Pawnee County, Oklahoma.

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Updated August 6, 2024

Elmer “Buddy” Moorhead -  Detective

Ardmore Police Department January 23, 1931

Elmer Moorhead was born in Moore County, Tennessee on July 23, 1893, to James Davis and Cynthia (Spencer) Moorhead. Elmer married Georgia Elizabeth Jones in January 1927.

Elmer “Buddy” Moorhead joined the Ardmore Police Department on August 1, 1929.

The afternoon of Friday, January 23, 1931, Detective Elmer “Buddy” Moorhead went to a “Squatters” camp on Highway 70 east of Ardmore to deliver some tires to a destitute family. While at the camp Detective Moorhead noticed two men setting in a green 1929 Buick with no license plate. Detective Moorhead ordered the two men out of the car. The first young man, 18-year-old Ray Wilson got out then the second man, Elbert Hart alias Pat O’Day exited the Buick. As Pat O’Day exited the car he produced a gun and ordered Detective Elmer Moorhead into the Buick. Pat O’Day got in the car after Detective Moorhead and with the gun in Detective Moorhead’s side drove off leaving Ray Wilson standing there.

Pat O’Day drove a short distance down the road, turned the 1929 Buick around and started back toward Ray Wilson. Just before reaching Wilson a gun shot was heard from inside the Buick. As the car passed Ray Wilson, Detective Elmer Moorhead was pushed from the car and died there beside the road without saying a word.

Detective Elmer Moorhead was survived by his wife Georgia “Elizabeth” and infant son Jack and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma.

Pat O’ Day was shot and killed in a shootout with police officers in Estelline, Texas less than a week later January 29th.

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Updated January 18, 2024

Billy Fairl Morgan, - Agent

Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control

July 30, 1981

On Thursday morning, July 30, 1981, Agent Billy Morgan, 29, was piloting a leased single-engine airplane looking for marijuana patches in Pittsburg County along with McAlester Police Department Corporal Ronnie Fox, 38, and Detective David Sheehan, 28.

About 8:20 a.m. the plane came out of a cloud bank and Agent Billy Morgan had to put the plane in a steep climb to avoid a mountain. During the climb both wings cracked, and the left wing fell off. The plane crashed in the foothills of the Jack Fork Mountains, six miles northeast of Daisy, just inside Pittsburg County killing all three officers.  

Agent Billy Morgan was to open the McAlester office of the OBNDD the following Monday and become the first agent in charge of the new office.

Billy Morgan was survived by his parents and is buried in Cypress Grove Cemetery, Iuka, Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

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Updated June 3, 2024

Joseph  Pennell.  "Joe" Morgan, - Deputy Sheriff

Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office  June 16, 1924

Joseph P. Morgan was born April 12, 1875, in Franklin County, Arkansas.

Joseph Morgan married Elizabeth Abbott in Muskogee City, Oklahoma on August 8, 1897. Three children were born to this union, Sylvia V. in 1899., Donald E. in 1904, and Joseph A. in 1906.

Joseph Morgan’s wife Elizabeth died in 1911. Joseph Morgan married Lilly Pearl Ferguson on December 4, 1912, in Muscogee County, Oklahoma. Lilly Pearl had a 3-year-old daughter Leona Smith.

Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan and Muskogee County “speed officer” (County Highway Patrolman) John Barger had been sent to El Paso, Texas by train to recover John Barger’s stolen patrol car and the Laurence brothers, William A. “Bill” and Albert B., who were arrested in El Paso still driving the stolen patrol car. The car had been stolen from Officer John Barger in Muskogee the month before.

On the return trip back to Muskogee, Oklahoma, Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan was riding in the front seat with Patrolman John Barger driving the recovered patrol car with the two prisoners shackled in the back seat.

About 7 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 1924, just south of Fort Worth, Texas, Albert Laurence suddenly reached forward yanking Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan’s gun from his holster. As Deputy Sheriff Morgan attempted to retrieve his gun, Albert Laurence shot him in the head, killing him instantly. Officer John Barger was forced to drive a ways before being told to stop the car and was forced from it. Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan’s body was then pulled from the car and dragged to a shallow ditch. The Laurence brothers handcuffed Officer John Barger to a tree and then fled in the patrol car a second time.

Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan was survived by his wife Lilly, daughter Sylvia, 25, and sons Donald Edmond, 20, and Joseph Abbott, 18.

Joseph Morgan is buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

The Laurence brothers would kill two more police officers before being apprehended near Tempe, Arizona on February 6, 1925. They killed Officer Charles Wilson, of the Livingston, Montana Police Department on August 20, 1924, and Officer Haze Burch of the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department on February 5, 1925. Bill Laurence was hanged January 6, 1926, in Arizona for the murder of Officer Burch and Albert Laurence was sentenced to life in prison in Texas for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Joseph Morgan.

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Updated June 3, 2024

Edden “Ed” Morris, Jr. - Deputy Sheriff

Grady County Sheriff’s Office December 21, 1909

Edden Morris, Jr., was born December 27, 1862, in Sangamon County, Illinois to Edden and Cathrine Early (House) Morris. Edden Morris, Jr. married Esther Rebecca Madison in 1888 in Alamos, Colorado.

About 8:30 p.m. the evening of Tuesday, December 21, 1909, Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris, Jr., 47, along with Undersheriff Yearta and two Rock Island Railroad detectives went to a location south of Chickasha near the railroad tracks to watch for thieves who had broken into a railroad car full of sides of bacon and as the train moved out of the railroad yard earlier the thieves threw some of the bacon out along the way.

As the officers approached the area, they observed a black man, later identified as Will Thorp, sacking up some of the bacon. The officers surrounded Will Thorp as he took off running. The officers pursued Thorp firing their guns at him as they ran through high grass. Will Thorp fell and as they got to him the officers saw that he was shot in the head but still alive.  At the same time Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris called to the other officers that he had been shot. The officers found that Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris had been shot in the lower back apparently by one of the other officers during the foot chase. The officers called for an ambulance. Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris was transported to his home and Will Thorp was transported to jail for medical treatment.

Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris, Jr. died at his home the next day, Wednesday, December 22nd at 3:55 p.m. Eden Morris had been a deputy sheriff about a year and had worked as a railroad detective before that.

Deputy Sheriff Edden Morris, Jr. was survived by his wife Esther and 19-year-old daughter Leona Early and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma.

The Agency Code, R-1, by Ed Morris’ engraved name on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial indicates he was a Special Agent for the Rock Island Railroad. Contemporary accounts of the incident identify him as a former agent for the railroad and had been commissioned as a Grady County Deputy Sheriff for a year.

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Jesse Whitfield Morris – Deputy Sheriff / Town Marshal

Washita County Sheriff’s Office / Mountain View February 3, 1910

About 11 p.m. Saturday night December 8, 1900, Deputy Jesse Morris was in his office when he received a phone call from a woman who advised him that three men were raising a disturbance at her place of business in the northwest part of town, a house of ill repute.

Deputy Jesse Morris deputized a young barber named Alfred Aker to go with him. When the officers reached the south door of the house the three men stepped out the north door and fired two shots. The officers ran to the east side of the house where the three men had made it to their horses. Deputy Jesse Morris told the men the shooting must stop, and the men denied doing the shooting and said it was a man who had gone in another direction. Deputy Morris pretended to believe them and planned for a better chance to arrest them as they each had their hands on their guns. The officers walked with the men up town, chatting in a friendly manner until they all entered the Cattle Exchange Saloon. Here Deputy Aker walked around behind the cigar case located at one end of the bar and Deputy Morris dropped behind and to one side of the three men. The men were “Deaf” Jim Williams, Mart Williams, and George Carr. Deputy Morris ordered the three men to throw up their hands and surrender. As quick as a flash every man drew his gun and the fight commenced.

Deaf Jim Williams was wounded first but continued to fire as he laid on the floor.

Mart Williams tried to escape but was shot as he reached his horse by another deputy who had arrived on the scene.

George Carr was wounded but was able to escape the salon after emptying both of his six shooters.

A friend of the outlaws who was also in the saloon took part and fired several shots at the officers and though gravely wounded was able to escape.

Deaf Jim Williams was arrested in the saloon that night. Mart Williams and George Carr were arrested the next day.

Deputy Jesse Morris had been shot in his right breast the ball passing through his lung and was removed from near his spine.

Deputy Aker had been shot through the kneecap and knee joint of one of his legs.

Deputy Jesse Morris healed but never fully recovered from his wounds. His lungs began hemorrhaging after several years and he died on Wednesday, February 3, 1910.

Deputy Jesse Morris was survived by his second wife Sadie and eight children, four from each marriage and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma.

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Henry C. Morrison - Detective

Tulsa Police Department April 23, 1933

Henry Morrison, 52, had been in law enforcement almost twenty years, having served as an officer in Coffeyville, Kansas and as a Deputy Sheriff in Okmulgee County before joining the Tulsa Police Department on May 4, 1932.

On Sunday, April 23, 1933, Detective Henry Morrison and his partner, J.A. Mellin, apprehended two men trying to steal a car. Detective Mellin placed one suspect in his car to transport him to jail while Detective Henry Morris placed the other suspect, Dave Olinger, in his car. When Detective Henry Morrison reached the intersection of second and Kenosha Streets, Dave Olinger attacked Morrison, wrestled Morrison’s gun from him and shot him twice. Dave Olinger then guided the car into a nearby service station, dumped Detective Henry Morrison’s body in the back seat and shot him two more times killing him. Dave Olinger was arrested two hours later.

Henry Morrison is buried in Snake Creek Indian Baptist Church Cemetery, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.

Dave Olinger pled self-defense at his murder trial and was acquitted by the jury.

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Updated April 21, 2024

John W. Morrison - Deputy U. S. Marshal / City Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service / City of Sasakawa, I.T.  July 18, 1907

Late Thursday evening, July 18, 1907, Deputy Marshal John Morrison, 37, was heading a posse searching for four men who had robbed the Evans Store, a combination store and post office in Spaulding, six miles north of Sasakwa, the evening before.

About eighteen miles south of Wewoka, Deputy Marshal John Morrison was riding just ahead of his two posse when he came upon the area where the four robbers had set up an ambush. The robbers opened fire on Deputy Marshal John Morrison, killing him before his posse could arrive to help.

The four robbers, John Street, Joseph Harkins and brothers John and Ned Cudjo, were captured the next day after a gunfight seven miles north of Sasakwa in which the robbers also killed Deputy U. S. Marshal Posse L. P. Dixon.

John Street and Joseph Harkins were charged with killing Deputy Marshal John Morrison.

Ned Cudjo was charged with killing Deputy Marshal L. P. Dixon and Morris Cudjo was charged with the armed robbery of the Evans Store and Post Office

John Morrison left behind a wife and two children.

The burial site of John Morrison is unknown but believed to be in Sasakwa.

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Updated July 16, 2024

Walter C. Mosier - Sheriff

Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office February 16, 1937

Following service in World War I Walter Mosier moved to Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma and became a deputy sheriff. In 1930 he was appointed as the Undersheriff and served in that capacity until being elected Sheriff in 1934. Mosier was re-elected in the summer of 1936 to a second term.

Sheriff Walter Mosier had gone to Mount Pleasant, Texas with N. J. Jacobs, a local General Motors employee, to repossess a car and was returning with it the afternoon of Tuesday, February 16, 1937. N. J. Jacobs was driving the repossessed car followed by Sheriff Walter Mosier. As they approached the city of Antlers, they entered a portion of the highway that had been newly graveled. A car ahead of them was leaving a heavy dust cloud so N. J. Jacobs pulled off the road to let the dust settle. Sheriff Mosier passed him and drove into the dust cloud colliding head on with a truck. The driver of the truck was seriously injured. Sheriff Walter Mosier died from his injuries before arriving at a Hugo hospital.

Sheriff Walter Mosier was survived by his wife Bertha, son Charles, 9, and daughter Charlotte 13, and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.

OLEM – 7N-1-6  NLEOM – 33E27

Updated February 13, 2024

Homer Moss - Night Officer

Madill Police Department  April 25, 1935

The evening of Thursday, April 25, 1935, Officer Homer Moss, 62, was having dinner at Sallie’s Café, a local café when Geneva Viers, a young waitress in the café, became involved in dispute with her ex-husband, William A. Taylor. Soon William Taylor pulled a gun and shot his ex-wife Geneva Viers four times. As Officer Homer Moss stood up, William Taylor him shot in the chest. William Taylor then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

Officer Homer Moss died in an ambulance on the way to an Ardmore hospital.

Geneva Viers died three days later.

Homer Moss had served as Madill City Manager for ten years until a year before his death. He had been the Night Officer for two months when he was killed, a position he held before becoming City Manager.

Homer Moss was survived by his second wife Meda “Dora” Claiburn and his three adult daughters, Lou Willa Lynn, Dora Mae Smith, and Dorothy Pearline Williams.

Homer Moss is buried in Woodberry-Forest Cemetery, Madill, Marshall County, Oklahoma next to he and Meda Dora’s daughter Mary Jane who died in 1923 when she was six months old. Daughter Dora Mae was buried next to her father Homer Moss upon her death in 1979.   Homer Moss and Meda “Dora” Claiburn were married in 1914 following the death of Homer’s first wife Lourinda Plato Moss in January of that year.

OLEM – 7N-1-22  NLEOM – 4E25

Updated April 21, 2024

Marcello Garcia Moya - Guard, Deputy U S Marshal

U. S. Marshal Service March 30, 1971

Marcello Moya, 34, was a Constable for Nueces County in Corpus Christi, Texas. On Tuesday, March 30, 1971, Marcelo Moya was acting as a guard for Deputy U. S. Marshal Hilton Schorre while transporting three prisoners from Texas to the El Reno Federal Prison and then transporting two other prisoners from there to the Federal Prison in Texarkana, Texas.

About 4:45 p.m. Deputy Marshal Schorre and his guard Moya had left the El Reno Federal Prison and were south bound on I-35, seven miles north of Pauls Valley with their two prisoners when a truck pulled off the shoulder of the highway in front of them. Deputy Marshal Schorre, who was driving, swerved to avoid the truck, lost control of his car, crossed the center median and struck a north bound vehicle. Deputy Marshal Hilton Schorre was killed almost instantly. Guard Marcella Moya and both federal prisoners died a few hours later in a Pauls Valley hospital. The driver of the north bound vehicle survived his injuries.

Guard Marcello Moya was survived by his wife Herminia “Minnie’ and four children.

Marcello Moya is buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas.

OLEM – 1N-2-11  NLEOM – 50W6

Updated September 22, 2024

Walter Lee Mull - Chief of Police

Dewey Police Department  August 11, 1918

On Sunday afternoon, August 11, 1918, Chief Walter Mull, 45, responded to an address on the predominantly black west side of Dewey in response to a report of a man beating a woman. Upon arrival Chief Mull spoke with the occupants of the house, Aaron Wardlow, Lucy Hazelrigg, and another man. While Chief Mull was discussing the situation with the people, Aaron Wardlow began cursing him. Chief Mull placed Wardlow under arrest. Aaron Wardlow was walking in front of Chief Mull as they started to leave the house. Wardlow stepped through the door, spun around and slammed the door shut in Chief’ Mull’s face while at the same time he drew a concealed .45 caliber revolver and fired through the door. The bullet struck Chief Walter Mull in the heart killing him instantly.

Aaron Wardlow then escaped but was arrested later that evening and taken to Bartlesville for safe keeping. That night, a frustrated lynch mob burned at least twenty black families’ homes on the west side of Dewey.

Chief Walter Mull, a widower, was buried next to his wife in the Dewey Cemetery, Dewey, Washington County, Oklahoma.

OLEM – 8S-2-26  NLEOM – 5E20

Updated August 10, 2023

James H. Murphy - City Marshal

City of Fairfax  October 13, 1912

About 9 a.m. Sunday morning October 13, 1912, City Marshal James Murphy and Osage County Deputy Sheriff George Andrews went to a field to arrest W. B. Shervington on a charge of horse theft. The officers located Shervington walking on a road toward them carrying a shotgun. When ordered to drop the shot gun Shervington  took aim at the same time City Marshal James Murphy was drawing his gun. Both men fired at the same time. City Marshal James Murphy was hit by several buckshot near the heart and died. W. B. Shervington ran off unhurt as Deputy Sheriff George Andrews fired several shots at him also.

City Marshal James Murphy is buried in Fairfax Cemetery, Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma.

OLEM – 9N-3-8  NLEOM – 47E23

Updated October 5, 2023

Howard Edmond Murray - Deputy Sheriff

Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office  January 25, 1910

Howard E. Murray was born in Boone County, Arkansas, on October 27, 1885, to Joseph D.  and Sallie Ann Bailey Murray.

On December 23, 1903, at the age of nineteen Howard Murray married twenty -year- old Carrie Keturah Bullard in the Southern District of the Oklahoma Territory.

To this marriage two children were born, a son Malcolm Hogarth Murray on September 29, 1904, and a daughter Violet Sylvia Murray on September 5, 1908.

In early January 1910, Deputy Sheriff Howard Murray, 24, had served a search warrant on a man named George Irving Morrow. Deputy Sheriff Murray found a quantity of homemade “choc” (Choctaw for beer) and destroyed it, infuriating George Morrow.

Around 10 a.m. the morning of Tuesday, January 25, 1910, George Morrow was observed drunk on the streets of the town of Adamson by Deputy Sheriff Howard Murray. As Deputy Sheriff Murray approached, George Morrow drew his gun and fired a shot at Deputy Sheriff Murray. Deputy Sheriff Howard Murray drew his gun and returned fire, both men missing. They both fired another shot almost at the same time. Each was mortally wounded. George Morrow was shot in the heart and died instantly. Deputy Sheriff Howard Murray was shot in the head but lived until 8:30 p.m. that night.

Deputy Sheriff Howard Murray was survived by his wife Carrie and two children, son Malcolm, 5, and daughter Violet, just over one year old.

Howard Murray is buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

OLEM – 10S-3-2  NLEOM – 25E19

Updated January 18, 2024

James Tandy Musgrove - Sheriff

Cooweescoowee District (Rogers County)

Cherokee Nation, I.T. June 3, 1895

On Monday, June 3, 1895, Sheriff James Musgrove went out to a home on Bird Creek north of Catoosa to arrest Frog Davis for illegally selling horses and cattle in the neighboring Osage Nation.

As Sheriff James Musgrove approached the house, Frog Davis open fire on him with a rifle through a crack in the wall of a log outbuilding. The bullet struck Sheriff Musgrove in the abdomen, and he died about an hour later.

Frog Davis escaped but was arrested near Tulsa the next week. Frog Davis was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for Sheriff Musgrove’s murder. Frog Davis was hanged September 13, 1895, and is believed to be the last person executed at the Cherokee Nation’s Prison at Tahlequah.

James Musgrove is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma.

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Updated May 25, 2024

April 23, 2021

Lorrin Dwight “Lon” Muxlow - Patrolman

Guthrie Police Department   September 7, 1913

About 2:15 p.m. on Sunday afternoon September 7, 1913, Guthrie officers Isaac H. Caldwell, 62, and Lorrin D. Muxlow, 41, attempted to arrest Lou Green in his “bootlegger’s parlor” on the south side of Viles Street between First and Second Streets in Guthrie for yet another liquor violation. When officer Lorrin Muxlow grabbed Lou Green’s arm Green pulled away and Officer Muxlow struck him in the head with his nightstick. A fight ensued during which Officer Muxlow again struck Green with his nightstick knocking him to his knees. As Lou Green started to get up, he pulled a .38 caliber automatic pistol and shot Officer Lorrin Muxlow three times, twice in the head killing him. Officer Isaac Caldwell drew his gun and fired at Lou Green but missed. Lou Green fired several shots at Officer Caldwell striking him in the head killing him also.

Isaac Caldwell had been on the police force for two years and was survived by his wife and eight children.

Lon Muxlow was survived by his wife Nora and young daughter Helen.

Both officers are buried in Summit View Cemetery, Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma.

OLEM – 5N-5-23  NLEOM – 17E18

Updated September 6, 2024

Frank Myers – Former City Marshal

Prague

Correct name Frank C. Miles

On Friday, August 31, 1923, Frank Miles, 50, was coming out of the post office in Prague just as City Marshal Hance Gaylor was entering. The two men immediately became involved in a fight. During the fight City Marshal Gaylor drew his gun and shot Frank Miles three times in the side, chest, and head. Frank Miles was taken to his home in southeast Prague where he later died without regaining consciousness.

Frank Miles was survived by his wife Annie and four adult children and is buried in the Prague Cemetery, Prague, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.

City Marshal Hance Gaylor immediately surrendered to the county sheriff and was released on a $50,000 bond. Hance Gaylor was later bound over for trial on a charge of manslaughter at his preliminary hearing.

During his trial for manslaughter Hance Gaylor was acquitted by the jury on October 1, 1923. It appeared that there had been “hard feelings of long standing” between the two men for several years following Frank Miles being removed as Prague City Marshal and as  a Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff, and that Frank Miles was the aggressor on August 31st.

Frank Miles was not a line of duty death and his name was mistakenly engraved “Frank Myers” on the Oklahoma Peace Officers Memorial when it was built in 1969.

OLEM – 7N-2-4 (Frank Myers)

Updated September 22, 2024

George Houston “Hugh” Myers - City Marshal

City of Davis  May 5, 1900

George H. “Hugh” Myers was born in Hamblen County, Tennessee, February 13, 1855. He had come to the Indian Territory about 1884 with his wife Sarah (Barber), whom he had married in 1883. “Hugh” Myers had served as the Undersheriff of Oklahoma County’s first Sheriff, Charles Colcord starting in February 1891. Myers also served as a Deputy U.S. Marshal for four years prior to becoming City Marshal of Davis.

On Saturday night, May 5, 1900, about 9 p.m., Pink Bruner, Lyman Mahardy (or McHarley) and Ben Gage were in the west part of Davis getting tanked up on rot gut whiskey and becoming rowdy. Finished with the night’s celebration, the three black men rode out of town firing their guns in the air. City Marshal “Hugh” Myers followed the trio. About half a mile out of town the trio set up an ambush and when City Marshal Myers arrived, they shot and killed him.

City Marshal George “Hugh” Myers was survived by his wife Sarah, daughter Wynnie, 11, and son Franklin, 9.

George H. “Hugh” Myers is buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Davis, Murray County, Oklahoma.

A party of citizens caught Lyman Mahardy at the scene, but Pink Bruner, though wounded, and Ben Gage escaped. Pink Bruner’s blood drops were easily trailed west, and he was arrested near Wild Horse Creek. Pink Bruner was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. Lyman Mahardy took sick and died before he could be tried. Ben Gage would not be arrested for fifteen years. He was arrested in Wewoka for public drunkenness. Ben Gage admitted to being involved in the murder of City Marshal “Hugh” Myers. He was then tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

OLEM – 3S-1-10 (Hugh – 1901) / 1N-2-13 (Hugh –1890)
NLEOM – 48E27 [Hugh]

Hugh Myers’ name is engraved on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial twice as he was mistakenly reported killed in 1890 as a Territorial Deputy Sheriff. The other engraved name has his year of death as 1901.

Updated April 26, 2024