Drowned - Jacob Dunn 1854

DUNN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 7/20/2016 at 13:25:12

Dubuque Weekly Observer – July 15, 1854

DROWNED – A young man named Jacob Dunn, formerly of LaPorte, Indiana, but more recently of Davenport, Iowa, drowned in Skunk River, at the crossing of the Iowa City Road, on Sunday last. His brother and four other persons from Indiana were with him on their return from Marshall County, where they had been “looking at the country.” The Ferryman was absent from home, and the deceased attempted to swim across the river for the boat, but within a few feet of it, sunk to rise no more, his friends being unable to rescue him. The body was recovered on Tuesday morning. - Oskaloosa Herald