Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Nipper, Unnamed July 1920
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The Cairo Messenger, July 23, 1920
Young Boy Drowned Near Miller's Spring

A twelve-year old boy, the son of Mr. Nipper, who lives only a short distance 
away, was drowned in the Ochlocknee River near Millers's Springs, about the 
middle of the afternoon last Sunday.

The boy, with his brother and another small boy, one fourteen and the other ten 
years old, went in bathing in the river, above the spring.  They went to the 
spring, but having no bathing suits, they went above the bridge, where the 
water was much deeper, and the little fellow got into water much over his head, 
said to be nearly eighteen feet deep.

When the other boys saw that he was drowning, they took their clothes and ran 
to the house to tell the father of the child.  The delay in getting home made 
it some time before the news was known at the springs, where a number were 
bathing.

The child's father returned and with the aid of the bathers, the body of the 
boy was found about an hour later.  Dr. Schreiber, Thomas County Health 
Officer, was on the scene, but efforts to resuscitate the child were unavailing.

The funeral services were conducted on Monday.  The family have a number of 
friends through this section, who have learned of the news with deep sorrow.   

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