Samuel Eugene JOHNSTON
Thanks to Larry C. for sharing the following:
April 1937 LaCoste Ledger Newspaper
A large boat carrying nine persons, turned over, of which six drowned at Medina Lake in Bandera County, Texas. Minnie and her father Sam died. Mrs. Sam Johnston (Minnie's mother) and son George survived.
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JOHNSTON, SAMUEL
JOHNSTON, MINNIE LEE
San Antonio, April 22 -- Chill waters of Medina lake, near here, gave up the fourth victim of an April 4 boating tragedy that claimed six lives, when the body of Samuel Johnston was found floating on the surface early today. The body of James E. Stone, a retired railroad employe, was recovered yesterday afternoon. Those of two other victims, Mrs. Lucille Lamkin and Minnie Lee Johnston, were found a short time after a sudden squall caused two boats to capsize. [Abilene Reporter News, April 22, 1937,
Samuel Eugene JOHNSTON
Thanks to Larry C. for sharing the following:
April 1937 LaCoste Ledger Newspaper
A large boat carrying nine persons, turned over, of which six drowned at Medina Lake in Bandera County, Texas. Minnie and her father Sam died. Mrs. Sam Johnston (Minnie's mother) and son George survived.
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JOHNSTON, SAMUEL
JOHNSTON, MINNIE LEE
San Antonio, April 22 -- Chill waters of Medina lake, near here, gave up the fourth victim of an April 4 boating tragedy that claimed six lives, when the body of Samuel Johnston was found floating on the surface early today. The body of James E. Stone, a retired railroad employe, was recovered yesterday afternoon. Those of two other victims, Mrs. Lucille Lamkin and Minnie Lee Johnston, were found a short time after a sudden squall caused two boats to capsize. [Abilene Reporter News, April 22, 1937,
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Minnie Johnston has the same death date as Samuel Eugene Johnston.
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