Thomas E. Tyus

Death by Force

Thomas E. Tyus was a 42-year-old male deputy sheriff in Creek County, Oklahoma, working the Bristow area in the years when the young oil towns around Sapulpa were rough, busy, and often volatile. He had moved his family to Bristow around 1905, first going into business by helping build and operate a two-story livery stable and wagon yard on West 6th Street before selling the stable and taking up farming. His personal life had already been marked by hardship before his death: his wife died in Dec ...Read More