Lewis-Greenup County KyArchives Obituaries.....Spriggs, Charles Ray June 21, 1942
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Lewis Co. Herald  June 25, 1942
CONCORD YOUTH DROWNS
                IN OHIO  

Funeral services for Ray Charles Spriggs, 16-year-old son of Mr. and 'Mrs, 
Cecil Spriggs who drowned  in  the Ohio  river  Sunday afternoon  almost in 
front of  his  parents' home  at Concord, were  held Tuesday  afternoon in the 
Methodist  Church  by Rev. Armitage  and burial  was in the Concord cemetery  
The  youth drowned at 12:20  O’clock Sunday afternoon, as he and an elder 
brother was swimming. It is thought he suffered a heart attack. 
 The body was  not recovered until Sunday night  at 7 o'clock  and only  then 
after the river was dragged, in  that area the whole afternoon in an  effort 
to find the body.
Young Spriggs was one of  fourteen children of Cecil Spriggs and wife. 
Besides his parents, he leaves thirteen brothers and sisters.

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