This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: BarbaraCox147 Surnames: Myers, Dennis Classification: death Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.myers/7815/mb.ashx Message Board Post: from Jacksonville (FL) Journal dated 31 October 1934 Mobile, Ala., Oct 31- a 19yo widow defended her father in a Mobile AL circuit court when he is being tried for slayer her socially prominent husband, saying that her father James A Dennis behaved abnormally for several weeks prior to the slaying after he was told she was to become a mother. The witness was Annie Dennis Myers, whose father testified he shot James Otis Myers, 37, in a momentary fit of insanity on April 20 1934. Dennis, 43, testified that he shot Myers after he had gone to the latter's dry cleaning establishment to talk to himn about relinquishing all right to a daughter born to Annie a few months after she married Myers. from AL death record James Otis Myers was the son of Lemuel and Mary Russel MYERS. He was b about 1896; his age was 38y, 2, 28d. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>