John Morrissey (1897)

MORRISSEY

Posted By: Linda Smith
Date: 12/20/2023 at 10:52:27

Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, April 30th, 1897
Page 1

Crawford Clippings

A very sad accident occurred east of Bevington on last Sunday. About noon some young men went a boat riding during the high water on one of the bayous near Middle River. The boat got upset in some way and they were all thrown into the water, and a boy 17 years old, son of Michael Morrisey, got drowned.
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Advocate Tribune
Indianola, Iowa
Thursday, April 29th, 1897
Page 5

Our Crawford township correspondent sends us an account of the drowning of a young man by the name of Morrissey, about seventeen years of age, two miles east of Bevington last Sunday. Morrissey, along with some other boys, went in a boat into a slough that was filled with back water from Middle river. Someone rocked the boat in order to frighten one of the party, when Morrissey fell out and was drowned before help could reach him, though his companions are said to have made every effort in their power to save him.

An other account, says that the rocking of the boat wad done to frighten a boy named Nugent, who was in the boat, making a faint of "ducking" him in the water. One Morrissey boy fell out, and his brother jumped in to try to save him. The first one to fall in was rescued, but the brother who went to his relief was drowned. -- Winterset Madisonian

Transcriber note: First name found by comparing 1895 Iowa Census with 1900 Federal Census, both from Warren County, Iowa.

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