Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wight, Alden And Ethel June 1905
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Cairo Messenger, June 9, 1905
Drowned In The Ochlocknee

No occurrence in our town ever spread such gloom as the drowning in Ochlocknee 
river last Wednesday afternoon of Alden and Ethel Wight, the eldest children of 
Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Wight.  The family with Mr. F. T. Brown's family and a few 
children friends were taking a day's outing at the river bridge.  After dinner 
the children were playing in the shallow water along the sand bar, it seems, 
and Mr. Wight had just left them for a few moments, when Ethel, and her little 
cousin, Lolia Wight, got beyond their depth.  Screams of the other children 
brought assistance in time to rescue Lolia but, in the meantime, Alden, heroic 
brother, seeing his sister about to go down, declared he must save her or drown 
in the attempt.  The water in which they sank was quite deep, and before they 
could be found life was extinct.

The entire town bows in sympathy with the bereaved ones.  Winsome children 
both, and their going leaves their home inexpressibly sad.  May he who wept at 
the grave of Lazarus, be the stay in this hour of bitter trial. 

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