Two Boys Drowned ~ Jesse and John Knauss

KNAUSS

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/14/2005 at 20:00:37

Fairfield Ledger
June 22, 1892
Page 3 col. 4

TWO BOYS DROWNED. JESSE and JOHN, sons of MR. and MRS. DAVID KNAUSS of this city, aged sixteen and eleven years, respectively were drowned in Cedar Creek about 200 yards below Smith’s Ford Sunday afternoon… The mother of the two unfortunate boys is almost distracted with grief. The father has been an inmate of the State Soldier’s Home for some time past….But one child is left them….