Newspaper: John Kinda, Drowned,  Franklin Parish, LA,
Submitted February 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd

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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    May 9, 1929

 
John Kinda Is Drowned In Bayou Macon
Body Stayed Under Water for 53 Hours; Relatives Unknown.
 
John Kinde, stave maker, aged 55 years was drowned in 
Bayou Macon Sunday at noon at Warsaw, 12 miles south of Delhi.
Kinde had been engaged in making staves with Walter Wyatt 
Madison parish. Sunday the two started to Delhi by auto. 
When they reached the bayou, Wyatt got out of the care (sic car) 
and Kind drove it upon the ferry, where he lost control of the 
machine. It struck a car owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pepper, 
knocking it into the bayou. Kinde's car with him at the wheel 
followed the other auto in the stream. Efforts to rescue him 
from the bayou met with failure.
The body was rescued Tuesday at three o'clock by Franklin parish 
convicts who had been carried to the scene. The body had remained 
under water for 53 hours. The remains were brought to Winnsboro and 
interment was made in the local cemetery.
Kinde, a European, had been in this country for the past fifteen years. 
He had no relatives here, his entire family having been left in Europe.
 
Submitter's note: Surname is spelled Kinda in title of article 
and Kinde and Kind in the article.