Beulah Walker and the Hex House of Tulsa
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According to the urban legend of the Hex House of Tulsa, Beulah Walker was hit and killed by a car after running out of the hex house on February 5, 1935.
Determining the truth behind that legend has been difficult.
First of all, Mrs. Carolann Smith, Mistress of the Hex House, was living in an apartment at the Sophian Plaza in 1935.
And secondly, the limited information available from newspaper archives, including the obituary of Beulah Walker, is contradictory and confusing.
I have, however, found an interesting piece of information rarely shared that I will provide at the end of this video.
The obituary states that Beulah Walker was struck by an automobile on January 31st, 1935 at the 3400 block of Salpulpa Road.
The automobile was driven by Captain Charles Rains of the West Tulsa Fire Department, who did smash his brakes when he saw Walker step onto the road.
Unfortunately, Rains was hit by the car behind him knocking his automobile into Beulah Walker.
Beulah Walker was knocked to the pavement, which caused multiple internal injuries.
She was taken to the Morningside Hospital in Tulsa. Morningside is the hospital that later became the Hillcrest Medical Center.
Walker had no known relatives, and no permanent address in Tulsa. The only identification on her was a membership card from the Rebekah Lodge, which is a religious based organization focused on doing good for humanity.
Walker did do good by working as a live in nurse and maid. Mrs. Carolann Smith was her most recent client.
The hospital learned from the Rebekah Lodge that Beulah Walker had lived with Mrs. Carolann Smith since 1932.
Beulah Walker died on February 4, 1935, and Mrs. Smith took care of the funeral and burial arrangements.
Mrs. Smith claimed that Beulah Walker was her aunt and that she was 55 years old.
Christian Science funeral rites were read at the Guardian funeral home. The Rebekah lodge conducted services at her grave in Oaklawn cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Smith obtained a $25,000 insurance policy on Beulah Walker. She later applied for another $25,000 policy, but the insurance company investigated and learned that Beulah Walker was not a wealthy aunt of Mrs. Smith but a live in nurse and maid.
The insurance company canceled Mrs. Smith's policy on Beulah Walker.
Beulah Walker was buried and the only thing anyone knew about her was provided by Mrs. Smith, until October 25, 1945 when the Tulsa County Attorney Dixie Gilmer received a letter from Mr. John Walker of Casper, Wyoming.
In the letter, Mr. Walker, wrote that he had recently heard about the Hex House story of Tulsa.
This is the piece of information that is rarely shared about the Hex House story, because it remains unconfirmed and only one article was published about this letter.
John Walker claimed that he had an older sister named Beulah Walker that left Casper, Wyoming in 1932 to go live with a Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
The Walker family lost contact with Beulah and never heard from her again. Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived in Casper, Wyoming before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1930. So it is possible that Beulah Walker could be the missing sister of John Walker. Gilmer turned the letter over to U.S. District Attorney Whit Mauzy.
That is the story of Beulah Walker and the legend of the Hex House of Tulsa.
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