Wilcox County AlArchives News.....Body of W. P. Oster, Who Was Drowned in Munger Lake, Brought Home for Burial. July 12 1906
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, July 12, 1906
  Catherine, Ala., July 5. (Special to the Mobile Register.) - The body of Mr.
Will P. Oster, who was drowned in Munger Lake, near Sunflower, Ala., yesterday,
was brought home on the midnight train last night prepared for burial, which
will take place this evening at 6 o'clock. It was postponed to this late hour
to allow some of his relatives to get here.
  Mr. Oster when drowned was in a little dugout skiff taking up line on which
was a very large turtle. He was alone at the time and it is supposed that while
standing in the skiff he lost his balance and fell overboard in about twenty
feet from the bank. His body was recovered in about three quarters of an hour
after the accident occurred. Three doctors used every effort to restore life
but to no avail. His brother, Mr. T. H. Oster, of Epps, Ala., arrived this 
evening, and his sister, Mrs. L. Fredburger, of Columbiana, Ala., will reach
here on the 5 o'clock train this evening.
  His death has cast a gloom over our little town.

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