Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Clark, George Weatly July 1, 1878
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Norfolk Virginian July 2, 1878
Yesterday afternoon a little white boy named George Clark, aged about 11 years, 
left the house of his grandfather, George W. Duvall, who resides on the corner 
of East and Bermuda streets, and started out on a fishing expedition. He 
proceeded to the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River, telling several 
acquaintances whom he met on his way that he was going to fish and asking them 
if they would go with him. Later in the evening, a party of boys went up the 
river just beyond the A., M. & O. railroad depot to bathe and discovered a boy’s 
hat floating on the water and a fishing line with one end in the water and the 
other made fast to the shore. They secured the hat by sending a water dog in 
after it and, suspecting it belonged to George Clark, brought it into town and 
showed it to his mother, who recognized it as the property of her boy. Search 
for the little fellow was at once instituted but proved futile. At a late hour 
last night, the little fellow had not returned home and but little doubt is 
entertained that he fell into the river while fishing and was drowned without 
being able to make himself heard.

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