Lane Teague Mabry

b. 4 July 1928, d. 25 April 1933
  • Lane Teague Mabry was born on 4 July 1928 in Temple, Bell County, Texas.
  • James Francis Mabry and Zettie Teague appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, at 110 South 21st. Other members of the household included Lane Teague Mabry, James Francis Mabry Jr., Katherine Genelle Mabry, Mozelle Mabry, Billie Nan Mabry and Edwin Riebe Mabry.
  • Lane Teague Mabry died on 25 April 1933 at age 4 in Belton, Bell County, Texas, at Belton Sanitarium . His death was officially witnessed by James Francis Mabry Jr.
  • He was interred at Rock Hollow Cemetery, Belton, Bell County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 26 April 1933 in The Abilene Morning News: (Temple, April 25) Lane Mabry, 5, a son of James Mabry, Temple blacksmith, died in a hospital at Bolton today of burns received last night when the family car overturned and caught fire on a road 11 miles west of Belton.
         The older Mabry and his wife were burned seriously, Mozelle, 8, suffered a broken arm. Three children at a house nearly pulled Billy Mabry from the flaming car and Marvin Truelove, who was in a passing car, rescued Mr. and Mrs. Mabry.
         The car, carrying 11 persons, plunged off a culvert into a deep ditch after its lights went out. Mabry said the machine was moving slowly, following the lights of a car ahead, when its wheels slipped off the side of a culvert.
  • Last Edited: 20 Nov 2016