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The David E Luna Family
Wm R Luna(son of D E Luna by 1st wife) is standing
first from right. Minnie Acuff Luna is seated holding her son
Bert on her lap in this picture from about 1920 Huntsville AL |
A Facebook thread about a near miss from a bullet brought to mind a story my Mom had told me about my Grandmother, Minnie Acuff Luna. I'd heard the story many times but called Mom for an interview of sorts. Mom's parents(Wm Richard Luna & wife Minnie) were living in Bone Cave, TN on C.P Moore's place about 1951 where they were sharecropping. The house they lived in had a rail fencing around the yard. My grandmother was in the yard and my mother and her younger brother, Wayne were playing nearby chasing each other around a chair. Mom's older brother, Ernest Luna and Douglas Deaton(Mom called him "Douger") were down the road talking near a tree that had fallen. They heard the shot and then Granny told Grandpa she thought she'd been shot. As far as Mom could remember they thought it was someone hunting on C P Moore property without his knowledge that was responsible for the stray bullet. Grandpa went to get Florence(C.P. Moore's wife) so that they could get Granny Minnie to the hospital in McMinnville. The bullet had went in her right leg missing the bone but hadn't exited. Granny Minnie recovered but passed about 6 years later.
Source: This story is from the information I gathered from my Mom when I asked her about what she remembered from the incident. If anyone else had ever heard about this I'd love to hear from them with any corrections if they have any. My Mom would have been around 11 years old at the time this took place.
WOW!!! This is a crazy story. Did they ever find out who shot her? When she died 6 years later was it from complications of being shot or something else? Were they able to remove the bullet? Sorry for asking so many questions but this is an amazing story. Thank you for sharing.
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