Jerry Mack Beall, Deputy Sheriff

Payne Country Sheriff's Office

On July 30, 1968, Deputy Beall, 26, was transporting two unhand cuffed prisoners from Cushing to the Payne County Jail in Stillwater along with the Chief of Police of Cushing, O. O. “Joe” Rowden, 60. Shortly after 3:00 P.M., approximately six miles east of Stillwater on Highway 51, one of the prisoners, Marvin R. Gibson, Jr., 19, attacked Deputy Beall, who was driving, wrenching the steering wheel sideways. The car crossed over the centerline hitting an oncoming car head-on. Both officers were killed. Beall was pinned by the steering wheel and Rowden was thrown through the windshield. Both prisoners received minor injuries but did not escape. Driver of the other car survived his injuries. A wife and two sons survived Beall.