LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obituary- Drowned, Dickerson and Grant, 1924. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Jane Poole Mar. 1999 ======================================================================== Kinston Free Press dated July 3,1924 TWO MEN LOSE LIVES WHEN BOAT FOUNDERS MILLPOND; TWO OTHERS SWIM ASHORE "Evidence to the coroner here indicates that Daniel Dickerson and Clarence Grant, who lost their lives in Gray's Millpond, near Institute, Wednesday afternoon, were drowned as the result of an accident. Dickerson and Grant are reported to have been members of a fishing party. Four men were in a small boat on the mill run. One of them, said to have been Dickerson, in moving, tilted the boat until it came near capsizing. Efforts were made to get the craft back on an even keel. It foundered, and the occupants found themselves struggling in deep water. Linwood Suggs and Roland Sheppard swam ashore, the others went down. Dickerson and Grant were poor swimmers it is said. Their bodies wee recovered some time after the accident. Dickerson was 37 years of age. He is survived by a widow and four children. Grant was unmarried. Both men were residents of the Institute district. The funerals were held this afternoon, burial of both being made in a small cemetery near Dawson. The deaths brought the number of drownings in Lenoir County this season to four."