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From: Becky Median <>
Subject: [MDGARRET] Wilburns - Deep Creek Lake drowning
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:49:06 -0800 (PST)

I was looking for more information on one of the Wilburn Family stories that was told to me - possibly some one has heard of this story before or would know of the news article as I would think that it would of made the newspapers; however, I don't know the date of the incident.  Again, I don't have my own vehicle to go looking for the answers myself.
 
Some background Information - I had met Buhl and Lola Wilburn in doing family tree research; They would be my cousins since Franklin X. DeWitt married Martha Wilburn.  Franklin X. and Martha (Wilburn) DeWitt Family had lived in a beautiful log cabin just back of the farm house where Vicky (Wilburn) Bond and her husband reside along Route 219 in between Rt. 42 and Hoyes Road - Vicky (Wilburn) Bond being the daughter of Buhl and Lola Wilburn.  I saw Buhl Wilburn's obituary in the Republican Newspaper, so he is deceased.
 
Vicky (Wilburn) Bond had told me a story I had remembered and wanted to be able to tell the specifics to my room mate.  I would call her, but she might not remember me, as it has been many years since she told me this story (don't want to tend to call only when I need some thing).  Vicky (Wilburn) Bond said she was a kid when this incident happen, so I would make this incident not long ago - with in approximately 50 years (of today's date 2008).
 
This story apparently effected the whole neighbored and it made some people afraid of the water (at Deep Creek Lake).  There was an incident where a young girl, possibly under 10 years of age, fell into Deep Creek Lake in the winter and drowned.  They had discovered her body from the water's edge, but it was under ice.  They had to wait until she was not under the ice no longer to pull her from the water into a boat on Deep Creek Lake - they could have possibly waited in the boat for her to reach them to do this in trying to make the pieces of the story fit together and/or could have broken the ice; as far as I know they could not stand on the ice.  I do not know the little girl's name as I did not want to make things worse to ask if the little girl might of been a Wilburn family member or a child of a family that was friends with the Wilburns.
 
If any one knows any thing about this incident, I would like to know more.  I also know that the little girl was in a dress and had her hair up when she drowned.  I am trying to place the little girl in my family tree and historical research.
 
Becky DeWitt
 

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