Now, I’ve received more information on a young man I’ve written about in
the past. He is a 3rd cousin
twice removed on my maternal side. His
name, William Dillon GILLEN, born 29 May 1913 and sadly, died 18 May 1930 in a
drowning accident in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Here is my original post about him SUNDAY’S
OBITUARIES ~ I’ve been busy finding obituaries this week for my Gillen line
When I wrote that particular blog post I had let my subscription to Genealogy Bank expire. I was using newspapers.com and that was the article I located. Now that I’ve renewed my subscription to Genealogy Bank, and thanks to the reader who contacted me, I have located more articles and pictures of young William D. Gillen.
Here's what I found when I entered William Gillen, 1930 in Louisiana and
Ohio, in the search filters for Genealogy Bank. There are 23 different
newspaper articles referring to William’s death, his burial etc.
Among the 23 articles I located the one that was sent to me by my
reader. It was from the New Orleans
States newspaper, page 1 on 19 May 1930.
The photo of William is no more clear than the one that was sent to me,
but I am happy to have the entire article.
Two boys went out on Lake Pontchartrain around 2 p.m. They were in a boat purchased by William with his savings. He named the boat the Flaming Youth. The boys worked together at the firm Arthur Duvic’s & Sons, dealers in boat supplies.
William’s nickname was apparently “Speedy” and the friend that was with
him, Edward Delaney, age 15, was nicknamed “Cotton.”
Here are photos of both boys from the newspaper.
A brisk gale with high waves came upon the lake that afternoon which
they believed caused the boat to capsize.
I searched but did not locate any articles that said they ever located
the body of young Edward. How sad for
the family.
William is buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. You may visit his memorial at #23405167. May both boys rest in peace.
My takeaway from this, is we never know where we’ll locate newspaper
articles for our family. I know we cannot
always afford the expense of more than one subscription. However, keep in mind that many libraries do
offer free use of their subscriptions to genealogy sites, to patrons.
If you are related to or connected to anyone in this blog post,
please get in touch. Let’s exchange
information.
Happy hunting,
Michigan Girl
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Great find, Diane!
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