CAPT. J. L. LANDON FOUND DEAD FRIDAY

Capt. John Lorenzo Landon, widely known
waterman and one of the community's most
highly respected citizens, was found by a
searching party shortly after the center of
Hurricane Hazel had passed Crisfield and the
winds had abated, last Friday evening, on the
side of the Quinn Boulevard, a victim of
drowning. Medical aid was immediately
summoned, but all efforts to revive him
failed and Dr. Wm. H. Coulbourne, medical
examiner for Somerset county, rendered a
verdict of death by drowning.

Capt. Landon had gone down to the place
where he kept his boat moored, to see that it
was still secure, when the full force of the
hurricane struck. As he attempted to make
his way back to his home on Wynfall Avenue,
it appears that buffeted by the hurricane
winds he became exhausted, was hurled off
the highway to the adjacent low land, and
was unable to get back up on the road. When
found he was laying flat in the water on the
marshy area.

He was the son of the late John Henry and
Patience Landon and the husband of Mary E.
Landon, all of Crisfield. Captain Landon was
one of the best known watermen in the
community. He had followed the water all his
life, from an early age, and had been
successful in his calling. He was a man of
quiet demeanor, with a high sense of honesty
and integrity, energetic and capable, and was
held in the highest esteem and regard by
everyone who knew him. He was one of the
fast disappearing type of watermen who had
used various kinds of equipment in his work,
from the small craft propelled by hand power
to the modern craft with power, and was an
expert in the catching of crabs, oyster and
fish in about all the ways any of them could
be caught. His business was to get products
of the water and sell them, and he knew the
business thoroughly, and had had many
unusual and at times dangerous experiences
while pursuing his vocation. Kind and
companionable, he had a host of warm
friends who sincerely mourn his passing.

Funeral services were held in the Covington
Funeral Home on Monday at 2:30 pm., with
Rev. A. B. Frye, pastor of Immanuel
Methodist Church officiating. Interment was
in Sunnyridge Memorial Park.

Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Mary E.
Landon, one daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Tyler of
Crisfield, two sons, J. (Jerry) L. Landon, Jr.,
of Salisbury and Sgt. Fred Landon of the
U.S. Army, stationed at Easton; Pa., two
sisters, Mrs. William Ward and Mrs. John
Daugherty, four brothers. Sidney 0. Landon,
William C. Landon, Dewey Landon and Henry
Landon, all of Crisfield, eight grandchildren
and two greatgrandchildren.

The Crisfield Times, October 22, 1954 pg. 8