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Subject: Robert Pierce drowns in the Missouri, 1907
Date: 20 May 2003 14:34:45 -0600

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Surnames: Pierce, Kimsey, Curtis
Classification: Death

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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. July 2, 1907. "TWO FREMONTERS DROWNED. Man At Bartlett and Boy at Tabor Find Death Beneath The Waves. Robert Pierce Falls from a Boat and Goes Down to Death in the Missouri River.--Tabor Young Man Gets Beyond His Depth in a Pond and is Drowned."--ROBERT PIERCE, a farmer who lived two miles southwest of Bartlett, was drowned while bathing in the Missouri river at noon Sunday.

Willie Kimsey, a boy about ten years of age has been making his home with Pierce for several months, and was with him at the time the accident which occurred while Pierce was sitting on the stern of a boat which was fastened to a tree, washing, and in some unaccountable way he slipped into the water which was about ten feet deep and running very swift.

He was a very poor swimmer and when he arose the first time he was unable to grasp the boat or reach a willow which leaned over the water near him. When he arose the second time he was carried so far into the current that no possible show existed for him. This was the last time he was seen by the boy.

The news was quickly taken to L. N. Curtis who lives near the Pierce home and he carried the news to Bartlett.

A large crowd soon gathered and proceeded to the scene of the accident, but not before a large number of his neighbors were there.

A fish net was obtained and the river was dragged for a distance of half a mile, besides there were several good swimmers there who dived and swam all over the vicinity in which he was last seen, but up to a late hour no trace of the body was found.

Mr. Pierce leaves a widowed mother to mourn his untimely death and she has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. He was an energetic worker and had fifty acres of very good corn which he was tending with good success.

The search for the body will probably be continued.

(The clipping does not have the second death with it!?.--W.F.)

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