Burton Lee Brewer, Deputy Sheriff

Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office

Shortly before midnight on July 25, 1974, Deputy Brewer, 57, and Buck Grace, Chief of Police at Morris, went to a house in Schulter where Darrell Andrews, the killer of Dewar Police Officer Thomas C. Adkins and Henryetta Auxiliary Police Officer Walter T. Hembree, was “holed up.” Unknown to the officers Andrews had gotten out of the house and was in the shadows by a fence in the back yard when he fired a 12-gauge shotgun at Deputy Brewer killing him. Chief Grace then shot Andrews and he was taken into custody.

John O Lung, Deputy Sheriff

Okmulgee County Sheriffs Office

On Friday night, September 15, 1922, Deputy Lung recognized Earl Pomeroy in a car with another man and woman as it entered the Continental Garage in Sapulpa. Pomeroy was a suspect in a business burglary Deputy Lung was investigating. As Deputy Lung and Sapulpa Chief of Police Ralph Morey entered the darkened garage they were fired upon by one of the men. Deputy Lung was struck in the left side, the bullet piercing his heart and right lung. Chief Morey was unharmed. Deputy Lung was placed in a car to be taken to the hospital but the car wrecked only two blocks away. Lung was transferred to another car but was dead on arrival at the hospital. Earl Pomeroy and the other man escaped and were never apprehended but the woman, Doris Stanley was arrested near the scene. His wife and five children survived Deputy Lung.