| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from
microfilm of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 4/24/1894.
Last Tuesday, a Miss Thompson and another lady got into a johnboat
at
the mouth of Anna Maria and started to cross the river. It
seemed
that neither of them had any knowledge of the use of oars or how to
manage
the boat and at once began to float down stream, which so excited Miss
Thompson that she lost control of herself and jumped out in the river
and
was drowned. The boat drifted some distance with the other lady,
finally lodging on a sand bar, where she got out and waded
ashore.
In due time the body of Miss Thompson was found and prepared for
burial. |
