This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOWARD, JOHNSON, JONES Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1519 Message Board Post: “Chattahoochee Claims Still Another Victim: George JOHNSON Drowned Yesterday in the River by the Overturning of a Boat “About 11:30 o’clock yesterday morning, while George JOHNSON, Bud JONES and Tow HOWARD were fishing out in the river near the boat landing, their boat was overturned, and resulted in the death by drowning of George JOHNSON, who could not swim. It seems that the boys had been fishing a number of fish baskets, which were anchored at different parts of the river, and in some way the boat was overturned while raising a basket from the water into it. All three of the men were thrown into the water. It appears that all of them could swim with the exception of JOHNSON, who went down in a few moments after being thrown into the water. The other two boys managed to get out safely, but JOHNSON sank to rise no more. The alarm was quickly given by the survivors, but assistance arrived too late to save the drowning boy. A dragging crew was shortly organized and an attempt was made to recover the body, but from last accounts their efforts had been fruitless, although! the search was kept up all during the afternoon.” [From the "Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer-Sun" newspaper, Sunday morning, 10 JUL 1898. I came across this item while researching an unrelated matter and am not kin. - jml]