The following information was taken from the CHICAGO DEFENDER NEWSPAPER: SOME DEATHS 1936-1938

PIONEER RESIDENTS:

Jan. 1936

CYRUS, Amelia
TURNER, John, 14 Jan 1936
MCDONALD, Mrs. Emma (ex-slave) 24 Dec. 1935, Marshall, TX

April 1936

ADAMS, George, (ex-slave), East Cambridge, MA
HALLOWAY, Frank W., Spanish War vet.

May 1936

TAYLOR, Mrs. Ednah, (Maywood pioneer citizen), 16 May

June 1936

CANADA, Mrs. Lizzie M., 15 June
FOSTER, Mrs. B. L., (old resident), 18 May 1936
PERCELL, Mrs. Jennie, (Nashville pioneer citizen), 25 May
GREEN (GREENE), William, (pioneer settler), Kansas City, MO

Aug. 1936

CUNNINGHAM, Mrs. Mary, (pioneer resident), Atchinson

Sept. 1936

BRYANT, Mrs. Ophelia, (pioneer Chicagoan), 16 Sept

Oct. 1936

SCOTT, Sam, (pioneer citizen)

Nov. 1936

SUTTLES, Hannah,(pioneer Chicagoan), 3 Nov 1936

Dec. 1936

LEBLANC, Dominick Sr., (Chicagoan pioneer citizen)
LEE, Mrs. Hennrietta, (ex-slave)
SMITH, Mrs. Margaret O., (well-known & pioneer citizen), 432 Ford St.,Clarksville, TN

ACCIDENTAL/INTENTIONAL: Auto, Suicide, Killings, etc.

April 1936

MINNIFIELD, Sam, Earle, AR local grocer, (killed wife & self)

May 1936

DAVIS, Aaron, (killed by wife, Roena Davis)
RANDOLPH, Mrs. Gertrude, (fatally stabbed), 22 May
SWAN, Benjamin, Age: 11, (drowning victim)
SWAN, Leon, Age: 16, (drowning victim)
WILLIAMS, W. C., Age: 19, (lynched), LA


June 1936

ANDERSON, James, (White hitch-hiker, riding with William Pickens, NY-NAACP director, Bakersfield, CA

Aug. 1936

GREEN, Major, (electrocuted), Ossining, NY, 20 Aug
HARRIS, Edward, 23 Aug, (shot fatally)
PIPER, Samuel, (killed by police, Evanston), 22 Aug

Sept. 1936

TARPLEY, Mrs. Naomi Williams, (killed by William Grady McCoy)
WATSON, Theodore, (killed by William Harris)

March 1938

ETKIN, Joseph,(White, shot to death)
HOWE, Jene, (White, hit by Agis Bray auto)
MONTROY, John, (hanged in Dec.) Dateline: 11 March, NY
ROBINSON, Albert, (killed by JacobLangford), 02 March

April 1938

ANDERSON,Emmett, (slain by wife)
CLOPTON, Hover, (slain by James Sims)
COOPER, Charles, (slain by Gentry Peters), Cleveland Heights, OH
DEAN, Richard, (stabbed by Miss Era King)
GETZLAFF, Hans, (slain by Gentry Peters), Cleveland Heights, OH
GILLEBRAUX, Samuel, (killed by Joseph Davidson a/k/a John Williams

April 1938

HAWKINS, Ernest, (accidental death)
JACKSON, Robert, (slain by T. L. Stubbs)
JOHNSON, Percy, (killed by train)
MCELROY, William, (killed by train)

MILLER, Nicholas, (killed by Charles Price), 30 March
OLIVER, Newte, (killed by Jake Costello)
PERRY, Wilmer,

MANUEL, James, (killed in Phoenix City, AL)

May 1938

OWENS, Tia, (killed by hobo)
ROBINSON, Albert, (killed by Jessie Langford), Marquette, MI
SMITH, Joseph L., (killed by H. E. Colburn), Jefferson County, AL

June 1938

CARPENTER, James, (slain by brother-in-law), 21 May
CONROY, Constable, Andrew, J., (shot by Eugene Cole) 21 June, Pittsburg, PA
DICKSON, Jonas, (suicide/murder)
KENNEDY, Mrs. Olivia, (killed by lightning bolt)