Obituaries:  Mrs. Troy McCormick, Sabine Parish       M-265
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 3, 1956
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Mrs. Troy McCormick

  3 Aug 1956 - Funeral services for Mrs. Troy McCormick, 38, of
Fisher who was accidentally shot to death late Friday as she
prepared dinner in the home of a relative, was held at 2 p.m.
Sunday at the Fisher Baptist church. Burial was in the Prospect
cemetery near Florien.

  Mrs. McCormick, who died as two of her three children looked
on, was fatally wounded when her nephew, Robert Joe Bush, 15,
accidently fired a .32 calibre bullet through her chest. Mrs.
McCormick and her children were visiting in the Bush home at the
time of the accident. The children looked on horrified, are
Raiford, 15, and Cora Elizabeth, 10. Mrs. W. O. Bush, Sr., mother
of the victim, was also a witness.

  Sheriff T. M. Phillips said the accident occurred when young
Bush and his cousin, Raiford, took, the pistol from a bedroom
closet and had been playing with it until their grandmother
sternly warned them to put it up.

  Phillips said young Bush, followed by the victims son,
went into the kitchen and suddenly a shot rang out. Mrs.
McCormick screamed and fell to the floor.

  The group had just returned from visiting a relative in
the Sabine clinic.

  Coroner Dr. W. H. Murdock ruled the slaying accidental.

  Mrs. McCormick is also survived by a son, Tommy Wayne,
12; two brothers, W. O. Bush of Many, R. C. Bush of Zwolle, and a
sister, Mrs. Esther Patton of Many.