This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SOC.2ACE/1352 Message Board Post: DAVIS ------ Drowned at Sandy Cove, N.S., August 23rd 1891, Frederick Davis in the 17th year of his age. Freddy belonged to Westport, N.S. but was fishing in St. Mary's Bay with his father and elder brother. At the time of the accident the vessel was at anchor in Sandy Cove; and he along with others went in bathing. He was a good swimmer, but had some heart trouble, and it is thought that the shock from bathing affected the action of the heart and death was the result. The father and the brother started at once for home with the body. The fog was dense and it was almost a perfect calm, so they were left to the mercy of the tide for twenty four hours. The sad news reached home by telephone and the young men manned their boats and went in search of the vessel. They soon found them in their sadness and towed them into Westport. By this sad calamity a gloom has been cast over a happy home and over the community generally, but God's grace supports the! sorrowing, and prayer rises from many hearts in their behalf and also for young men who are not prepared to meet God. The father of the deceased wishes publicly to thank the young men who came to his relief in that time of sore need. From the Baptist paper: Messenger and Visitor, 1891 September 23rd issue