This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mechan Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8515 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 28 Jan 1900, p. 10 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Drowned in Little River Cameron, Tex., 27 Jan – Frank Mechan was drowned in the Little River near Lilac Thursday and his body has not been recovered. His team and wagon in which he was traveling was lost in the stream. = = = = = Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan 1900, p. 8 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Driver and Team Drowned Cameron, Tex., 27 Jan – Mr. Frank Mechan, a farmer living in the Ad Hall neighborhood, drove his team into Little River at Mormon crossing, Thursday at a place he had frequently used before and he and his team were drowned and most of the wagon lost. The place was until recently a sandbar and Mr. Mechan was familiar with it, but the recent rains had filled the banks and washed out the sand, so when he drove in the team and the wagon went under and he could not get them out. One mule and the wheels of the wagon have been found, but Mr. Mechan’s body is yet in the water. He was a thriving farmer, living about ten miles from Cameron and leaves a wife and children.