Luther Eugene Herrington

The eldest child of Isaac Newton "Ike" Herrington, I and Ezella Fleming Boykin, Luther never married. He died by drowning, on the 4th of July, 1905, shortly before his 19th birthday, when he became tangled in his fishing gear while fishing alone on the Escambia River, near Pensacola. (Source: His sister, Joycelyn Bethany, née Lloyd, as qtd. in Walter Maxewell Boykin, Jr.'s Boykin Biographies: John A. Boykin, Florida Pioneer, His Ancestors and Descendants, Matairie, Louisiana, 1989.