A SAD TRIPLE DROWNING.
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy [Lonnie] was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter [Mollie] and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr [Jim who had been left on the buggy seat]. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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The two Alexander brothers mentioned would have been Joe (whose grave we have not yet found) and Charlie Alexander, who were at that time farming with the Barrows. Nannie's and Mattie's eldest brother Will was over at Lorena with his young bride Ada and their first child Loretta and expecting Lucille.
Mollie and Jim were taken in by their Aunt Betty Wilson Maxey and raised with the large Steve Maxey family in their comfortable home in Chilton.
Myrtle Alexander Baker reported this tragic death event, from the narratives from Papa Will Alexander, older brother to Mattie Alexander and Nannie A Barrow. The Barrow name locally used a broad "a" and was slurred off to "Baarrr." MBB
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy [Lonnie] was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter [Mollie] and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr [Jim who had been left on the buggy seat]. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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The two Alexander brothers mentioned would have been Joe (whose grave we have not yet found) and Charlie Alexander, who were at that time farming with the Barrows. Nannie's and Mattie's eldest brother Will was over at Lorena with his young bride Ada and their first child Loretta and expecting Lucille.
Mollie and Jim were taken in by their Aunt Betty Wilson Maxey and raised with the large Steve Maxey family in their comfortable home in Chilton.
Myrtle Alexander Baker reported this tragic death event, from the narratives from Papa Will Alexander, older brother to Mattie Alexander and Nannie A Barrow. The Barrow name locally used a broad "a" and was slurred off to "Baarrr." MBB
A SAD TRIPLE DROWNING.
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy [Lonnie] was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter [Mollie] and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr [Jim who had been left on the buggy seat]. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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The two Alexander brothers mentioned would have been Joe (whose grave we have not yet found) and Charlie Alexander, who were at that time farming with the Barrows. Nannie's and Mattie's eldest brother Will was over at Lorena with his young bride Ada and their first child Loretta and expecting Lucille.
Mollie and Jim were taken in by their Aunt Betty Wilson Maxey and raised with the large Steve Maxey family in their comfortable home in Chilton.
Myrtle Alexander Baker reported this tragic death event, from the narratives from Papa Will Alexander, older brother to Mattie Alexander and Nannie A Barrow. The Barrow name locally used a broad "a" and was slurred off to "Baarrr." MBB
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy [Lonnie] was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter [Mollie] and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr [Jim who had been left on the buggy seat]. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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The two Alexander brothers mentioned would have been Joe (whose grave we have not yet found) and Charlie Alexander, who were at that time farming with the Barrows. Nannie's and Mattie's eldest brother Will was over at Lorena with his young bride Ada and their first child Loretta and expecting Lucille.
Mollie and Jim were taken in by their Aunt Betty Wilson Maxey and raised with the large Steve Maxey family in their comfortable home in Chilton.
Myrtle Alexander Baker reported this tragic death event, from the narratives from Papa Will Alexander, older brother to Mattie Alexander and Nannie A Barrow. The Barrow name locally used a broad "a" and was slurred off to "Baarrr." MBB
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