The Ouachita Telegraph - Flew Johnston Drowns

Date: Aug 2001
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.


**********************************************
 

The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, July 27, 1889
Page 3, Column 1

                       To-day while attempting to swim the river about two miles below town Flew Johnston, 
a negro living on the LaBaum plantation, was drowned.

#  #  #