Heaton - George
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 16 June 1899
Terre Haute Express: E. J. Heaton returned from Irvington yesterday where he was called to attend the funeral of his youngest son, George, who was drowned at Columbia, Ky., Monday. George Heaton lost his life while bathing Monday in Russell Creek, near Columbia, Ky., where his brother, Frank G. Heaton, conducts a weekly paper. George Heaton went to Columbia from this city last February and had organized a class in elocution at that place and also had an engagement singing in one of the leading churches. On the day of the tragedy he went in company with a young friend to bathe and waded into the water up to his arm pits. Suddenly he stepped off a shelf on the bank and sank in fifteen feet of water. His companion says he rose but once when he shoved a plank to the drowning man, but was powerless to save himself and went down. The body was found shortly after and prepared for burial. George Heaton, while here, was actively engaged in Y. M. C. A. and Christian Endeavor work and was a reader and entertainer of great ability. He was of a retiring disposition and had a host of friends to whom the news of his death was a decided shock. The funeral services were held Thursday in the Central Christian Church at Indianapolis, conducted by Rev. R. V. Hunter, formerly of this city, assisted by Rev. Dr. Weiss, of Indianapolis. The remains were placed in the vault at beautiful Crown Hill Cemetery temporarily. Frank J. Heaton, brother of the deceased, accompanied the remains from Columbia to Indianapolis. He will return to Kentucky this week accompanied by his mother, who will remain with him through the summer. =s
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 9 June 1899
George Heaton, son of Ed Heaton, formerly of this city, but now living in Terre Haute, was drowned Monday morning at Columbia, Ky. He was about 25 years old and was well known in this city, where he has frequently visited.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 9 June 1899
Frank Heaton gives The Journal, concerning the death of George Heaton, the following details which will be of interest to the many Crawfordsville friends of the deceased: “George was drowned between 2 and 3 p.m. Monday in Russell’s Creek, at Columbia, Ky. He had not been away from the office a half hour when word was brought me. I am editing The Spectator and he was there with me, having come down last February. At the time of his death he had no one but a boy about fifteen years old with him. He had gone for a bath and got too deep. The creek is very narrow but is deep in places from ten to fifteen feet deep.” - s