Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Birth Date1 Apr 1893
Birth PlaceAsh Grove, Greene County, Missouri
Death Date4 Mar 1963 Age: 69
Death PlaceBrighton, Polk County, Missouri
Burial PlaceBrighton, Polk County, Missouri, Brighton Cemetery
FatherJoseph Benjamin JOHNSON (1850-1931)
MotherSarah Elizabeth PIERCE (1854-1894)
Spouses
Birth Date5 Nov 1889
Birth PlacePolk County, Missouri
Death Date2 Jan 1932 Age: 42
Death PlaceSpringfield, Greene County, Missouri
Burial PlaceBrighton, Polk County, Missouri, Brighton Cemetery
OccupationSpringfield, Missouri Detective
FatherNathaniel Price CROSSWHITE (1865-1929)
MotherLela Ona ROBERTSON (1866-1949)
Family ID1040
Marr Date19 Sep 1911
Marr PlacePolk County, Missouri
ChildrenEthel Mae (1923-)
Nellie Frances (1926-2022)
Notes for Sarah Ethel JOHNSON
Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Missouri), Wed. 6 Mar. 1963, Page-20
MRS. ETHEL CROSSWHITE JENNINGS
Mrs. Ethel Crosswhite Jennings, 69, of Weaubleau, died Monday morning at the state hospital in Nevada. She was the widow of Ollie Crosswhite, a Greene County deputy sheriff killed in the Young Massacre west of Springfield Jan. 2, 1932. Six local officers were killed by two brothers.
Survivors are her husband, Earl; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Libbey, Albuquerque, and Mrs. William Jersak, Springfield; four sons, Joe, Columbus, Ohio, Carl, Oakland, Calif., Keith, Springfield, and Lee, Route 4.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Klingner Chapel. Burial will be in Brighton Cemetery
On Find A Grave.
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MRS. ETHEL CROSSWHITE JENNINGS
Mrs. Ethel Crosswhite Jennings, 69, of Weaubleau, died Monday morning at the state hospital in Nevada. She was the widow of Ollie Crosswhite, a Greene County deputy sheriff killed in the Young Massacre west of Springfield Jan. 2, 1932. Six local officers were killed by two brothers.
Survivors are her husband, Earl; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Libbey, Albuquerque, and Mrs. William Jersak, Springfield; four sons, Joe, Columbus, Ohio, Carl, Oakland, Calif., Keith, Springfield, and Lee, Route 4.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Klingner Chapel. Burial will be in Brighton Cemetery
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Oliver Rufus "Ollie" (Spouse 1)
Republic (Missouri) Marshall Mark Noe was gunned down after he stopped a drunk driver (Harry Young, just out of prison) and his passenger. Noe was found in a ditch about two miles east of Republic the following day, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
This tragic event would eventually spark the nation's worst massacres in law enforcement history. The event known as the Young Brother's Massacre came to a head on January 2, 1932 in which 6 law officers were brutally gunned down as they attempted to raid a farm house in Brookline, Missouri, in search for Noe's murderers.
After the gun battle erupted, five of the eleven officers in the possee managed to return to Springfield to summon additional help. They later testified they observed Floyd Barker or Alvin Karpis, of the Barker Gang, inside the farm house during the shoot out. One officer maintained to his dying day that "Pretty Boy" Floyd was at the house the day of the shootout.
The officers returned with an army of law enforcement officers only to find 6 of their own, dead in one of America's most tragic bloodbaths. The gang managed to escape.
It was on January 5, 1932, when Houston (Texas) Police, acting on a tip from a bed and breakfast owner that Harry and Jennings Young were inside. Police stormed the house and a shootout broke out in a hail of gun fire. The killers were trapped in a bathroom where they reportedly committed double suicide.
Those losing their lives in the January 2, 1932 gun battle were: Greene County Sheriff Marcel Hendrix, Deputy Sheriff's Ollie Crosswhite, and Wiley Mashburn; Springfield Police Chief Detective Tony Oliver and Springfield Patrolmen Sid Meadows and Charley Houser.
On Find A Grave.
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Young Brothers Massacre, the largest law enforcement massacre until 911103
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This tragic event would eventually spark the nation's worst massacres in law enforcement history. The event known as the Young Brother's Massacre came to a head on January 2, 1932 in which 6 law officers were brutally gunned down as they attempted to raid a farm house in Brookline, Missouri, in search for Noe's murderers.
After the gun battle erupted, five of the eleven officers in the possee managed to return to Springfield to summon additional help. They later testified they observed Floyd Barker or Alvin Karpis, of the Barker Gang, inside the farm house during the shoot out. One officer maintained to his dying day that "Pretty Boy" Floyd was at the house the day of the shootout.
The officers returned with an army of law enforcement officers only to find 6 of their own, dead in one of America's most tragic bloodbaths. The gang managed to escape.
It was on January 5, 1932, when Houston (Texas) Police, acting on a tip from a bed and breakfast owner that Harry and Jennings Young were inside. Police stormed the house and a shootout broke out in a hail of gun fire. The killers were trapped in a bathroom where they reportedly committed double suicide.
Those losing their lives in the January 2, 1932 gun battle were: Greene County Sheriff Marcel Hendrix, Deputy Sheriff's Ollie Crosswhite, and Wiley Mashburn; Springfield Police Chief Detective Tony Oliver and Springfield Patrolmen Sid Meadows and Charley Houser.
On Find A Grave.
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Young Brothers Massacre, the largest law enforcement massacre until 911103
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