Two Ladies and a Boy Drowned

C. T. Sackett, of Garnavillo, informs us that on the evening of the 28th ult., Mrs. Carolina Taylor, wife of Marcellus Taylor, of Volga township, with an adopted son named Emmet, four years of age, and Edna Amsden, a young lady nineteen years of age, while returning from Garnaville and attempting to cross Cedar Creek, were turned out of the sleigh by the force of the water and drowned. Their bodies were not found until the next morning. – McGregor Times

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 2