This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dewee, Dewees, McDonald Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5436 Message Board Post: Rockdale Messenger, Thur., 20 Jun 1889 Hanging - The dead body of a negro was found swinging to a limb near the Dewees ranch on the Guadalupe river. The negro was suspected of having murdered old man McDonald and his wife, who kept a country store 15 miles from San Antonio, on the 12th of April last.