My gggrandfather James Hedge Kinnan (frequently spelled Canan or Kanan) was drowned in the Monongahela River February 24, 1871. His father Thomas Kinnan lived near Carmichaels in 1876, according to the twp. maps, and James and his wife Lavina Tuttle lived in the Wana area in WV in 1860 census. I hope that someone in the Mon Valley more familiar with the area than I could help me find the proper newspaper which might have had an obituary or a news item of the drowning. I only know that it was somewhere on the Mon. River and I assume it could have been near his father and south. Would sure appreciate any help you could give me. Marjorie Smallwood