This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Echenger, Gay, Maxey, Morton Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3414 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho August 19, 1893 Last Sunday afternoon Len Morton and William Gay discovered a body floating in Snake river at the Ontario ferry. They took a skiff and towed it ashore near the railroad bridge, and on Sunday evening an inquest was held by Coroner Maxey. The investigation failed to reveal the man’s indentity, but Coroner Maxey has since received word that the body was that of John Echenger. He had been engaged in placer mining on the island near Nyssia, Oregon, and his drowning was probably accidental. His boat and tools were found near the farm of Dr. W. C. Maxey, not far from the island. He was a single man and his address was Nyssia.