Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: John, James, Oct 1919 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Victoria Valentine, , Jan 2009 Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/obits/john-james.txt Taken from McDonald Pa Outlook 23 Oct 1919 Falling from a bridge into the swollen waters of the south branch of Robinson Run while on his way to school today, James JOHN, aged seven years, an Assyrian lad, was drowned. About an hour later his body was recovered by Charles JACKSON. Hanging on to the rail of the bridge and watching the water go swirling along underneath him, the boy is supposed to have been dizzy and dropped into the stream. A little sister was with him and ran to her home and told her mother what had happened. With no one present to render him help, the lad went down in about eight feet of water. He was helpless in the current. Search was started immediately for his body. The stream was dragged and the remains were finally located down the stream where he had fallen in, having lodged in some debris which had collected. With considerable difficulty the body was finally removed by JACKSON. The lad was in the second grade of the Midway school. He father and mother, the sister who was with him at the time and a brother survive.