Mack McAfee

- 1903

• Name	Mack McAfee
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 May 1903	Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	8 Jun 1903	Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I29751	Rossville
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2020

  
  

• Documents		Obituary- McGuire, John H. 1 Two Dead. It is generally believed that two persons, John McGuire and Mack McAfee, an old colored gentleman, were drowned in the flood. They lived on the Mulvane island and nothing has been heard or no trace found of them since Friday last. All that day the two men with Jim McGuire worked incessantly to save their stock. In the evening Jim and John succeeded in landing a few things at the Mulvane ranch, leaving the old darky to watch the stock. Against the advise [sic] of all John took the small boat and went back to the island to bring away McAfee. That was the last seen of him. It is presumed that McGuire reached his home and with the colored man started back but in their exhausted condition they were unable to cope with the high waves and strong current and were wrecked in the trees. Friday night cries for help were heard by the people at the Mulvane ranch but there was none to venture out in the darkness and possible destruction for their relief. The river and island have since been searched for traces of them but nothing has been discovered. Later. Yesterday (Thursday) John Lillard and Nick Bush found the boat used by McGuire, in the timber southwest of the Mulvane ranch. It was bottom side up and had lodged between two trees. Searching parties have gone out today to look for the bodies. [From The Shawnee County News, Friday, June 5, 1903]
  		Obituary- McGuire, John H. 2 The Bodies Recovered. The dead bodies of John McGuire and Mack McAffee were found this week in the water on the island southwest of town near the capsized boat. McAffee's body was found Monday and was immediately prepared and buried in the Rossville cemetery. It was not until Wednesday afternoon that McGuire's corpse was found. Both bodies were not far from where the overturned boat was discovered. The remains of John McGuire were buried in the city cemetery yesterday morning. The burial service was conducted at the grave by Rev. Clyde L. Kuhn of the M.E. Church. John McGuire was about sixty years of age and leaves a wife, several children and four brothers, Jim, Henry, Robert and William Mack McAffee was an old colored gentleman well known to everyone in this vicinity. [From The Shawnee County News, Friday, June 12, 1903]