Obituary of MRS JAMES L. LINDSAY and CHILDREN, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by : Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd, Gulfport, MS, 
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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Microfilm
at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  Feb 15, 1934

Headline: Former Selma Man's Family Asphyxiated at Home in Capital

Gas escaping from a stove without the knowledge of the family was blamed 
Sunday for the deaths Sunday of Mrs James L. Lindsay, 36, her three children, 
June Lindsay, 15, Billie Ruth Lindsay, 13, and Victor Lindsay, 14.

Their father and husband awoke in the early morning hours with a scream just 
in time to realize that he was being overcome and survived after treatment in 
a nearby residence.

Mr Lindsay is choir director and Sunday school teacher in a Baton Rouge 
church and is a senior chemistry student at Louisiana State University.  He 
formerly resided at Selma and was a candidate for Grant Parish representative 
at one time.

Dr Thomas B. Bird, parish coroner, assigned the deaths to carbon monoxide 
poisoning.  Fire Chief Robert A. Hogan laid the accident to a defective 
burner on a stove in their home.

Funeral services were held at Baton Rouge Monday.