Shelly, you asked...snip>looking for an obituary or news story for Hazel Ellen Austin and children Cynthia and Robert. Death date for all three is August 18th 1956 in Vermilion Twp. >snip Here is the first of two articles. Sandusky Star-News Aug 20, 1956 page 1 col 5: SEEK BODIES OF MOTHER, 2 CHILDREN - Mayhew Austin, 40, survives tragedy on Bay during storm. BULLETIN ~ Sandusky firemen recovered the body of Cynthia Austin, 14, from Sandusky Bay off the Hinde & Dauch dock, foot of Jackson St, early Monday afternoon. Charles Chamberlain, 521 Pearl St notified police that he saw the body off the municipal dock. Identification was made by the girl's father, Mayhew Austin. Austin, his son, Eugene and a brother, Mark Austin, Vincennes, Indiana had been on a Coast Guard boat searching for the bodies. The body was removed to the Charles J Andres Sons' Funeral Home and will be taken to the Hinman Funeral Home at Berlin Heights. Only the father and a 15 year old son of a rural North Monroeville family of five survived today following a Sandusky Bay Tragedy during the Saturday afternoon storm. Mayhew Austin, 40, was discharged from Providence Hospital Monday following severe shock after he was rescued from a range light which he succeeded in reaching after his 17 foot speedboat, "Tonda" was swamped during the storm. One son, Eugene, 15, remained at home Saturday while the other members of the family went on the boat trip. Drowned in Sandusky Bay are: Mrs Hazel Austin, 31, wife of Mayhew; Cynthia Austin, 14, and Robert Austin, 12. Members of the Cedar Point Coast Guard continued dragging operations Monday after obtaining more definite information from Austin as to where the capsizing of the boat occurred. Until today it was impossible to question the man, an employee of Apex Electric Mfg Co Sandusky, because of severe shock. The Coast Guard quoted Austin as saying that the party was near Johnson's Island when the storm appeared headed this way. They failed to don life jackets and headed for the Lower Lake Coal loading docks. While enroute the boat caught by the brunt of the storm, upset and all were thrown into the water. Austin told the Coast Guard that he found one of the children's jackets floating and hung on to it and which probably saved his life. He said the wind hit and the boat was swamped. The Coast Guard stressed the fact that had the family donned life jackets there is a possibility all might have been saved since the station immediately sent out a patrol throughout the Sandusky Bay area. The boat sank. According to Patrolman Harry Vail of the Sandusky police department, Austin is reported to have swam approximately one half hour and clung to the first range light in the bay from the coal laoding docks. L G Warner and A W McLeod of the Cedar Point Coast Guard removed Austin from the range light and brought him to Sandusky where he was taken to Providence Hospital by Frey ambulance. The Austin family lived on Patten Tract Road north of North Monroeville. Sandusky police received the call from the Coast Guard at 6:06pm Saturday to meet the boat bringing Austin to the mainland. -- Erie County Chapter,OGS. Dues $10 per year. Meetings ~ 3rd Monday of March, April, May, Sept, Oct & Nov Place ~ Zion Lutheran Church, Columbus Ave Sandusky OH at 7pm Erie County Chapter, OGS; POBox 1301; Sandusky OH 44871-1301 --