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Ancestry/Genealogy

GentryDixon

(2,963 posts) Thu Jul 10, 2014, 05:53 PM Jul 2014

I found a fourth cousin

who is a cold case murder victim from 1991 in Siskiyou County, California.

The poor thing was 77 years old when someone shot her in her home. This case is still unsolved as of the info I found online. Rest in peace Maye Clevenger Mechling.

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I found a fourth cousin (Original Post) GentryDixon Jul 2014 OP

Some unusual deaths do turn up in genealogy. No Vested Interest Jul 2014 #1

I had a third cousin who was murdered in Lumberton, TX circa 1979. AverageJoe90 Aug 2014 #2

No Vested Interest

(5,167 posts)

1. Some unusual deaths do turn up in genealogy.

Reply to GentryDixon (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2014, 09:22 PM

Jul 2014

I found a great granduncle who hanged himself from a ceiling light fixture in a Detroit hotel.
Also found a 14 yr.old who impaled himself on a pitchfork while jumping on a haystack.

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)

2. I had a third cousin who was murdered in Lumberton, TX circa 1979.

Reply to GentryDixon (Original post)

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 04:51 PM

Aug 2014

He was Yearby Land III. Rest in peace, cousin.

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