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FATHER OF - MILLIONAIRE HEIRESS DIESJohn Rector, Father of Sarah Rector Dies Broken Hearted in Baylor Hospital, Dallas.To die alone, broken hearted, away from friends and relatives though rich in this world’s good was the fate of John Rector, father of Sarah Rector, heiress to millions of dollars worth of oil lands.He was taken from the train at Dallas early Saturday, unconscious and rushed at once to Baylor hospital where it was found that he was suffering from uremia. He died 24 hours later.Humiliation and grief over the deception of Jim Manuel, whom he knew when both were poor “bad land” farmers near Muskogee, is believed to have been responsible for his lapse into such a critical condition.Manuel while in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., for forgery, told Rector that oil had been discovered near a piece of land which he owned near Tampico, Mex., and that his land was worth $40,000,000. Rector, having seen the magic of oil raise his own family from poverty to a quarter million dollar home in Kansas City, credited the story.The bond was made and with a couple of thousand dollars in expense money in his pocket, Mr. Rector started to Mexico with his old Muskogee friend to get some oil millions for himself. Manuel had promised him half of the proceeds from his' land for helping him out.' When they got to Mexico, Mr. Rector found that Manuel’s tale was a fabrication. The ex-convict vanished into the desert leaving him stranded. He wired back to Kansas City for money to get home on and the humiliation after the fond dreams he had entertained is believed to have killed him.Manuel had previously served a six-year term in the Oklahoma penitentiary for forging a deed to a sister’s allotment and selling it. She, too, was a Creek freedman.His bddy was turned over to the Crawford Undertaking Company where it was prepared for burial and shipped Monday to his 'wife, Mrs. Rosa Rector, who lives in Muskogee, Okla. Mr. Rector was about 45 years old.Miss Rector, who now resides in i Kansas City, was immediately noti-, fied of her father’s death and she left at once for Muskogee where her j mother now is.I Miss Rector will be remembered as the young lady whose huge fortune was the cause of so many attempts _ on the part of promoters and schem-. ers to rob her. In the list of her ex-' periences in keeping her fortune p which is roughly estimated at $10,-1 000,000, she has had to outwit lawyers, often keeping a bodyguard . about her to guard her against phys-( ical injury.One such experience was encountered at Tuskegee Institute, where as the guest of Mrs. Washington, a guard of students under Mr. Ticum-seh Bush of Waco, prevented her for-1 cible abduction by a party of schem-_ ers who had followed her from Kan-. sas City for that purpose.. Miss Rector and her guardians now maintain a magnificent home in Kan-sas City, where for the past two t years she' has been pursuing her j studie.AFRICAN CHIEFS TAKF MAMV
Newspaper Details
The Appeal
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sat, Jul 22, 1922
Page 2
Full Page
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Mike C.
NA, 08 Apr 2024
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