Drowned-Francis Bennett-1857

BENNETT

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 5/17/2020 at 20:55:32

The Eureka, Anamosa, Iowa, June 9th, 1857

DROWNED-FRANCIS BENNETT, while bathing in the Wapsipinicon on last Sabbath morning, was drowned. Two young men that were with him tried to save him, but were unable to do so, one of them being carried down twice by the drowning man, he was aged 27 years.