Mitchell County Georgia Obituaries Forrest Lewis Palmer 1912 ****************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ****************************************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sam Luckey Oct 2002 Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/mitchell.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Obituary of Forrest Lewis Palmer as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 12 Jul 1912. Camilla, Georgia. Forrest Palmer, the twelve year old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Palmer, who lived a few miles east of Camilla, was drowned yesterday while in swimming with some other boys about his own age. The body was recovered after having been under water for several minutes and every effort was made to resuscitate the child but after several hours of hard work all efforts were found futile. The accident occurred about 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The little boy, with his two brothers, had gone over to the home of his uncle, Mr. J. L. Palmer, and with several other children, they had gone to a small pond nearby to go in swimming. It seems, from the children's account of the accident, that he had gone out on a log or something and fell off into water that was about five feet deep. The other children were so badly frightened that they were unable to help him and ran to the house for help. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Palmer were at home and they telephoned to Mr. John Phillips' farm and he and Mr. Jim Swindle left immediately for the pond. Sheriff Crow was passing about the time the children were telephoning and seeing that they were excited, asked the cause. He started at once for the scene of the accident and arrived about the time Messrs. Phillips and Swindle and a negro man came up. They went into the water and soon found the body of the child, which had then been under water for fully fifteen minutes. Taking the child to the house, they telephone for Drs. Lewis and Brown and then resorted to all methods of resuscitation known to them while waiting for the arrival of the physicians The physicians were unable to do more than had already been done and pronunced the case hopeless. The sad case has excited the sympathy of the whole community where the parents of the little boy have many friends. Mrs. Palmer had gone to visit relatives in Meigs and Mr. Palmer was in town at the time of the accident.