Privett Brothers Obituary |
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Alamo Signal Alamo, Crockett County, Tennessee Friday, Friday, August 12, 1910 A very deplorable accident occured on Friday evening, July 29, just below the old bridge across the Forked Deer river, about two and a half miles east of Halls. Three boys or young men by the name of Privett, sons of Sam Privett, living near Friendship, were in the river bathing and fishing. It seems that the older brother was fishing a trot line? leaving his two younger brothers bathing near the bank where the water was shallow. He heard an unusual splashing in the water behind him and looking around quickly he saw his younger brother sinking for the last time and his second brother trying to save him, and before he could reach them they had gotten beyond their depths and drowned. Their ages were 15 and 17 years respectively. In trying to save the two younger boys the older one came near losing his own life. On Saturday, the 30th of July, the two bodies were laid to rest in the Pond Creek graveyard. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Parker, of Friendship. |