At the time of Jannie May's birth in 1934, her parents did not own a car. She was born at home and was not a healthy baby when she arrived. Dr. W. F. Hickle attended her birth in the early morning hours of September 16, 1934. When he came back later that day, he advised she be taken to a hospital in San Antonio immediately. As they had no car and no money for the expense of an ambulance, Brother Covington, the Baptist preacher in Kenedy, drove her and her parents, to the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio that same day. They had to leave her in the care of the hospital personnel and go back home to Kenedy as they had no place to stay. Her father, Jim, and his pastor drove back and forth every other day or so for the 79 days that she lived.
On December 4, 1934, her older sister Gracie and brother, Everett Lee, remember that when the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio called the family to tell them Jannie May had died, her father and Brother Covington drove up in the preacher's car to collect her body. Jim carried the baby's body in his lap after they'd purchased a casket in San Antonio and they drove back to Kenedy. A service was held in the Baptist Church in Kenedy and the casket was carried out to the cemetery in the back of the preacher's car, where she was laid to rest at 2 months, 18 days old, in the City Cemetery on December 5, 1934.
The hospital where Jannie May lived and died no longer exists, so without a death certificate no cause of death is proved.
Died in Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
On December 4, 1934, her older sister Gracie and brother, Everett Lee, remember that when the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio called the family to tell them Jannie May had died, her father and Brother Covington drove up in the preacher's car to collect her body. Jim carried the baby's body in his lap after they'd purchased a casket in San Antonio and they drove back to Kenedy. A service was held in the Baptist Church in Kenedy and the casket was carried out to the cemetery in the back of the preacher's car, where she was laid to rest at 2 months, 18 days old, in the City Cemetery on December 5, 1934.
The hospital where Jannie May lived and died no longer exists, so without a death certificate no cause of death is proved.
Died in Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
At the time of Jannie May's birth in 1934, her parents did not own a car. She was born at home and was not a healthy baby when she arrived. Dr. W. F. Hickle attended her birth in the early morning hours of September 16, 1934. When he came back later that day, he advised she be taken to a hospital in San Antonio immediately. As they had no car and no money for the expense of an ambulance, Brother Covington, the Baptist preacher in Kenedy, drove her and her parents, to the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio that same day. They had to leave her in the care of the hospital personnel and go back home to Kenedy as they had no place to stay. Her father, Jim, and his pastor drove back and forth every other day or so for the 79 days that she lived.
On December 4, 1934, her older sister Gracie and brother, Everett Lee, remember that when the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio called the family to tell them Jannie May had died, her father and Brother Covington drove up in the preacher's car to collect her body. Jim carried the baby's body in his lap after they'd purchased a casket in San Antonio and they drove back to Kenedy. A service was held in the Baptist Church in Kenedy and the casket was carried out to the cemetery in the back of the preacher's car, where she was laid to rest at 2 months, 18 days old, in the City Cemetery on December 5, 1934.
The hospital where Jannie May lived and died no longer exists, so without a death certificate no cause of death is proved.
Died in Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
On December 4, 1934, her older sister Gracie and brother, Everett Lee, remember that when the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio called the family to tell them Jannie May had died, her father and Brother Covington drove up in the preacher's car to collect her body. Jim carried the baby's body in his lap after they'd purchased a casket in San Antonio and they drove back to Kenedy. A service was held in the Baptist Church in Kenedy and the casket was carried out to the cemetery in the back of the preacher's car, where she was laid to rest at 2 months, 18 days old, in the City Cemetery on December 5, 1934.
The hospital where Jannie May lived and died no longer exists, so without a death certificate no cause of death is proved.
Died in Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
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