Obits: Taulbee, John, JR., died  06/1953
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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WOLFE COUNTY NEWS - July 1, 1953

19-YEAR-OLD YOUTH DROWNS IN FARM POND

A father, who could barely swim, had to watch is 19 years old son drown 
Sunday afternoon while he begged him to help.

John Taulbee, Sr., his 19-year old son, John, Jr., another son, 
Emerson, 17, and a friend, Ollie Profitt went in swimming in a farm pond 
belonging to James I. Hollon, Jr., at the edge of Hazel Green, Sunday 
afternoon.  The pond is over seven feet in depth in places.  Due to recent 
thunderstorms the water was muddy.  Before John Jr., realized his peril 
he was in water over his height.

Strangled and terror-sticken he called frantically for help.  Before 
his father, who does not swim well, could reach him he sank and did not 
re-appear.

Attracted by their cries for help, others rushed to the scene of 
disaster.  A human chain was formed to probe for the body.  About 45 minutes 
affter it disappeared, (4:15 C.S.T.) Elmer Clark located the body and 
James Bernard Buchanan dived down and recovered it.  Though artificial 
respiration was applied for sometime life was not restored to the body.  

Besides his father, John Taulbee, and brother, Emerson, who were with 
him when he drowned, he is survived by his mother and two other 
brothers, Everett of California and Taylor of Lacy Creek; also a married 
sister, Laura, who lives in California and a younger sister who is unmarried 
and works in Dayton, Ohio.  Also his paternal grandmother.

Funeral services had not been planned early Monday morning.


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