From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
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