RHODE, Alva

RHODE, BRANIAN

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 5/23/2021 at 19:47:48

TABOR BEACON
June 1905

Rhode, Alva,  the 12 year old son of T. A. Rhode, the Randolph hardware man, was drowned Tuesday afternoon about 4 o’clock in a small creek a short distance northeast of town.  No one considered it dangerous to wade in the creek at that place and the water was only about 2 feet deep.  That there were any deep holes seems to have been unknown but the boy slipped into a hole about 11 feet deep and drowned before assistance could reach him.  Alva was accompanied by another small boy, Benny Branian, from near Tabor who had not yet entered the water.  (June 1905 Tabor Beacon)

Originally submitted by Cay Merryman