Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stafford E Fain November 1926
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Lindy Hard ssautyvalleyfarm@worldnet.att.net March 23, 2004, 1:34 pm

Edison News 26 Nov 1926
Stafford Fain and His Three Year Old Child Meets Tragic Death by Drowning Sunday
S. E. Fain, 32, 425 Forty-ninth street, north  mechanic, was drowned in a vain 
attempt to rescue his 3 1/2 year old daughter, Flora Frances, from the icy grip 
of the Black Warrior, near Lock 17, following the capsizing of their boat and 
two others at noon Sunday.  Mrs. Fain, who was with her husband, saved herself 
by clinging to the side of the overturned skiff until a motor boat reached her 
from the shore.  She rescued her daughter from the river from the side of the 
boat, only to have her died in her arms.  Crude first aid efforts to restore 
her to life proved in vain.
    The body of Mr. Fain had not been recovered Sunday night.  A rescue party 
scoured the river all Sunday afternoon.  The search will be resumed Monday 
morning.
     Four others Rescued.
Four others persons, occupants of the other boats, were rescued from the river 
by the unidentified hero in the motor boat.  Two men, blamed by Mrs. Fain as 
the cause of the drowning, saved themselves by swimming to shore without 
offering aid to the seven other persons, struggling in the water, she said.
     Following the tragedy, the mother, with her dead baby in her arms, drove 
alone for 20 miles in an attempt to get aid for the child.  The Fain family had 
gone to the river for a day's outing and had hired a boat.  There they met two 
other outing parties and they joined forces.  The three boats were tied 
together for safety.  This measure, reports said, later led to the tragedy.
     Flora Frances entered the boats in tears, reports said, and it required 
much coaxing on the part of her parents and new-found friends to induce her to 
go.  During the short row, which ended in her death, she clung to her mother in 
fear.
.... [article continues]... Birmingham Age-Herald

Was Well Known in Edison.
     The above from a Birmingham paper gives the details of the tragic drowning 
of Mr. Stafford Fain and his little daughter there Sunday.  Mr. Fain is well 
known by our people, being born and raised here at the old Fain home in Clay 
county, moving to Birmingham a few years ago.   He was the son of the late 
George Fain, and is survived by his wife, mother and several brothers and 
sisters.
     His brothers, Messrs. G. D. and Riley Rain left here Monday morning on 
receipt of the message, and news from them state that the body of Mr. Fain was 
found Tuesday morning, interment following in a cemetery there.
     The drowning of Mr. Fain and his little daughter are the third members of 
this family to be claimed by the Grim Reaper in the past few weeks, a daughter 
and sister dying dying suddenly in North Carolina in the early fall, and the 
heartfelt sympathy of the community is extended to the family.



Additional Comments:
Microfilm Sept 1922-Apr 1927

Note by contributor:  Stafford Earle Fain b Sept 1894 Clay Co GA, s/o George 
Thomas Fain & Ella Arkadelphia Davis.

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 3.5 Kb