A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Calloway http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2719 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34106 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Southern Patriot Article Date: July 7 1841 Article Description: Three Persons Drowned at Once. Article Text: A most lamentable and distressing occurrence took place near the mouth of Cypress creek, in the county of Calloway, Kentucky, a few miles below the mouth of Sandy, on Wednesday, the 24th ultimo. A little son of Mr. J. B. WINCHESTER, who lives near the mouth of Cypress, was fishing in the creek, a few rods from the house on the opposite side, below a log across the creek, just left very slippery from the subsidence of the back water from Tennessee river, then falling from the late rise. He is supposed to have fallen in from the log, and his mother and grandmother (Mr. WINCHESTER's mother) to have been drowned in attempting to get him out. A little girl, about three years old, and just beginning to talk, and a suckling infant about three months old, were all that were left at the house. The little girl crossed the log and went to a neighbor's house, about a quarter of a mile off, and told them, as well a she could be understood, that her mother was in the water. On search! being made, the three bodies were found within about six feet of each other, Mr. WINCHESTER's wife having one handful of his mother's hair. The scene must have been heart-rending to the father! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com