The Memphis Daily Avalanche

Memphis, Tennessee

October 13, 1840

    DROWNED - About a week ago a gentleman named Hardwick and a negro boy belonging to Mr. Murdock, of Okalona, were drowned in the Bigbee river, at Carmargo.  It appears that Mr. Hardwick, in jumping into a skiff in which the negro was sitting, capsized it, when both sunk to the bottom.

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