Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — BROTHER OF MISS EVA BROWN DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

BROTHER OF MISS EVA BROWN DROWNED.

-.Walter Brown, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown and a nephew of Mrs. Geo. Goff of Rensselaer, was drowned at the fair grounds lake at Crown Point Saturday afternoon while in bathing with several companions. He was a good swimmer and was perfectly at home in the water. The boys had been out to a raft in the lake and after a time started to swim back. Young Brown finally gasped that he was about exhausted, saying “I am about all in fellows," and one of the party tamed back to assist him. Before he oonld reaoh him he went down and did not again come to the surfaoe. The water was forty feet deep where the drowning occurred and it was over three hours before the body was recovered. He is supposed to have been taken with cramps. The boy was a nephew of Mrs. Geo. Goff of Rensselaer, and his sister, Miss Eva Brown, was here visiting Miss Fannie Porter at the time of the accident. Mrs. Goff, Mrs. Bert Goff and Miss Porter attended the funeral, which was held at Crown Point Tuesday. The unfortunate lad was very popular in high school and athletic oirclee at Crown Point, and the whole community there deeply sympathize with his grief-strioken parents.