The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/A Sad Case of Drowning
A Sad Case of Drowning.
On Sunday week, a young girl, daughter of Hugh King, of Piedmont, Va., was crossing a temporary foot-way across the mouth of George’s Creek, just as it connects with the North Branch, she fell off the log and was drowned. The Piedmont Independent says:
She was in company with several ladies and gentlemen, but the water was high and the currents of the two streams so swift that rescue seemed impossible. The whole day was spent in laborious and fruitless search after the body, but it could not be found. She was an amiable and beautiful girl, about fifteen years of age. Her mother had gone to the city of Baltimore on a visit, and had left her daughter in charge of the household affairs. She was on her way to church, when the melancholy and distressing accident occurred.