Grady COUNTY GA Obituaries - David Lee Gainous 1932 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Janet Sumner ************************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ************************************************************************************************************** The Cairo Messenger, March 17, 1932 Cairo Sailor Slain Doing Relief Work Lee Gainous Fatally Shot; Cairoites' Relatives Safe In Quake Gunner's Mate David Lee Gainous, of the Battleship Arizona, was shot and killed at 4:35 o'clock last Saturday afternoon while doing shore relief work at Long Beach, Cal., the scene of a disastrous earthquake last Friday night. The Navy Department informed his parents here that he was thought to have been accidentally killed, although details are still lacking. The sending of the body here with an escort has been delayed for some reason unknown here, but Mr. S. W. Gainous, the young man's father, expected it to be shipped from San Pedro Thursday, in which event it would probably reach here for funeral and interment about next Tuesday. Young Gainous had been in the Navy five years and three months and was 24 years of age. He was married on Christmas Day, last, in California. His parents and their many relatives have the sympathy of all of the people in the community in the bereavement. Surviving, besides his parents, are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Guyt Singletary, Thomasville, Mrs. Wiley Duncan, Whigham, and Fred, Aileen, Edward, Eleanor, and Hilda Gainous. So far as The Messenger can ascertain, all of the other victims of Grady County people in the earthquake zone escaped injury. Dennis Blackman and his wife were among those in the stricken zone and his brother, Hobson Blackman, received an interesting letter from him this week telling about the disaster. The letter was written during the series of shocks.