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Donahue, Ernest Jr. died 1935

DONAHUE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 7/25/2015 at 16:58:49

Clayton County Register, Thur., 24 July 1935.

The Mississippi river claimed its first victim of the year at Marquette last Thursday afternoon, when Ernest Donahue, Jr., 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Donahue, Sr., drowned while swimming with three companions, Danny Dahmen, Milton Presho and Jack Goltz.

The boys, all good swimmers, swam out into the river to get into the waves of the Gen. Ashburn, passing steamboat. Donahue is believed to have been seized by cramps. He went down, but his companions held him up for a time, crying for help as they held him. When his dead weight threatened to drown them all, they let him go.

McGregor and Marquette people at once started to drag the river for the boy's body, which was finally located by the mouth of Bloody Run at Marquette Saturday forenoon.

The victim was a graduate of the Marquette high school last June, and besides his parents is survived by a sister. The family has the deepest sympathy of the whole community in this sad accident.


 

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