John H. Ammons, 33, teamster, died helping to save Mellie M. Hughes, 19, from drowning, Zwolle, Louisiana, July 4, 1912. Mrs. Hughes, who could not swim, and her husband were wading in the Sabine River, and they got into water seven feet deep, 60 feet from the bank. Hughes tried to swim to the bank with his wife, but he could make no headway across the current. Ammons, fully dressed, waded and swam to them from the bank. He grasped Mrs. Hughes’s hand and swam eight feet with her out of the strongest part of the current and then, becoming distressed, released his hold and was drowned. Hughes got his wife to the bank in safety. 9243-801
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