ROBERT MORGAN DROWNED SATURDAY NIGHT
While frog hunting in a pond
near Wardell Saturday night,
Robert Morgan, who lives up Big
Creek, was drowned. News of
the tragedy was brought to Rich-
lands about ten-thirty by Morgan's
companion, Charles Hale, who said
he unable to swim and could not
get to Morgan when he saw that he
was in distress.
A searching party of about
twenty persons went with Hale to
the scene where Boyd Boggess, Jr.
and Walter Nunley volunteer to
enter the pond to search for him.
Young Boggess went in over his
head and found Morgan's body,
apparently face down on the
bottom, and dragged him to the
surface by his suspenders.
Boyd's work was highly commended
by those present.
Funeral rites were held for
him at the Christian Church at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
with the Rev. Dunn, pastor of
the church, officiating. Farmers
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush
Morgan; four brothers, J. Ayler,
Lacy, and Graham, of Richlands,
Henry, of Ohio, one sister, Miss
Kate Morgan of Richlands, his
wife, Mrs. Josephine Johnson
Morgan, and two children who
reside in Ohio.
(Richlands) News Progress
July 4, 1940
While frog hunting in a pond
near Wardell Saturday night,
Robert Morgan, who lives up Big
Creek, was drowned. News of
the tragedy was brought to Rich-
lands about ten-thirty by Morgan's
companion, Charles Hale, who said
he unable to swim and could not
get to Morgan when he saw that he
was in distress.
A searching party of about
twenty persons went with Hale to
the scene where Boyd Boggess, Jr.
and Walter Nunley volunteer to
enter the pond to search for him.
Young Boggess went in over his
head and found Morgan's body,
apparently face down on the
bottom, and dragged him to the
surface by his suspenders.
Boyd's work was highly commended
by those present.
Funeral rites were held for
him at the Christian Church at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
with the Rev. Dunn, pastor of
the church, officiating. Farmers
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush
Morgan; four brothers, J. Ayler,
Lacy, and Graham, of Richlands,
Henry, of Ohio, one sister, Miss
Kate Morgan of Richlands, his
wife, Mrs. Josephine Johnson
Morgan, and two children who
reside in Ohio.
(Richlands) News Progress
July 4, 1940
ROBERT MORGAN DROWNED SATURDAY NIGHT
While frog hunting in a pond
near Wardell Saturday night,
Robert Morgan, who lives up Big
Creek, was drowned. News of
the tragedy was brought to Rich-
lands about ten-thirty by Morgan's
companion, Charles Hale, who said
he unable to swim and could not
get to Morgan when he saw that he
was in distress.
A searching party of about
twenty persons went with Hale to
the scene where Boyd Boggess, Jr.
and Walter Nunley volunteer to
enter the pond to search for him.
Young Boggess went in over his
head and found Morgan's body,
apparently face down on the
bottom, and dragged him to the
surface by his suspenders.
Boyd's work was highly commended
by those present.
Funeral rites were held for
him at the Christian Church at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
with the Rev. Dunn, pastor of
the church, officiating. Farmers
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush
Morgan; four brothers, J. Ayler,
Lacy, and Graham, of Richlands,
Henry, of Ohio, one sister, Miss
Kate Morgan of Richlands, his
wife, Mrs. Josephine Johnson
Morgan, and two children who
reside in Ohio.
(Richlands) News Progress
July 4, 1940
While frog hunting in a pond
near Wardell Saturday night,
Robert Morgan, who lives up Big
Creek, was drowned. News of
the tragedy was brought to Rich-
lands about ten-thirty by Morgan's
companion, Charles Hale, who said
he unable to swim and could not
get to Morgan when he saw that he
was in distress.
A searching party of about
twenty persons went with Hale to
the scene where Boyd Boggess, Jr.
and Walter Nunley volunteer to
enter the pond to search for him.
Young Boggess went in over his
head and found Morgan's body,
apparently face down on the
bottom, and dragged him to the
surface by his suspenders.
Boyd's work was highly commended
by those present.
Funeral rites were held for
him at the Christian Church at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
with the Rev. Dunn, pastor of
the church, officiating. Farmers
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush
Morgan; four brothers, J. Ayler,
Lacy, and Graham, of Richlands,
Henry, of Ohio, one sister, Miss
Kate Morgan of Richlands, his
wife, Mrs. Josephine Johnson
Morgan, and two children who
reside in Ohio.
(Richlands) News Progress
July 4, 1940
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