Bartow County GaArchives Obituaries.....Middleton, John & Wife June 1881
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JUNE 24, 1881

NEIGHBORHOOD News

From The Rome Courier - - - We received the sad intelligence of the drowning 
of a young wife and her husband in Roger's Mill pond on Euharlee creek near 
Stilesboro in Bartow County, Ga. It appears that Mrs. Middleton, wife of Mr. 
John Middleton, crossed over the mill pond on a small ferry boat on Monday 
afternoon to visit a neighbor, as she had been in the habit of doing since her 
residence in the neighborhood, and that her husband went over later in the 
evening to escort her home. They got to the ferry boat about 8 o'clock to 
start home, the husband pulling the boat over by a rope that was stretched 
across the pond. When they had gone about half way, the rope unfortunately 
struck Mrs. Middleton, throwing her into the water. She immediately sunk and 
before rising to the surface, her husband jumped in to rescue her, but instead 
of saving his wife, he was carried to the bottom and both were drowned. We 
have never been called upon to pen a sadder occurrence than this, for these two 
happy people were married only four months ago, and had just fairly launched 
out upon the sea of life. Their bodies were recovered soon after the drowning 
and when found, the husband's arms were clasped lovingly around the form of his 
young wife. 

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