Forsaking a compass, a surveyor and three other men in a surveying party in the wilds of Dare County, four miles from human habitation last week, George Owens, a young negro, may have met death from exposure in the six mile waste of desolate savannah, he attempted to cross, while the party was trying to work its way back to safety.
Owens was working with a surveying party that is striking a line thru the swamp from Stumpy Point in Dare County to Englehard in Hyde, and were making headquarters in a houseboat stationed at Long Shoal River. Cox & Cox of Hertford and Elizabeth City are the surveyors, and young David Cox and four of the party overtaken by a storm Thursday morning set out to walk four miles thru the swamp to Stumpy Point. Owens seems to have disagreed on the course and turned his steps another way, heading into a six-mile waste against the protest of his companions. the only hope was that he found his way to one of the fish camps on Long Shoal Point five miles away, but he had not been heard from early this week He is described as a yellow negro 22 years old, weight 130 pound, and was five feet, six inches high He told the men of the camp that he had lived in Marion, S.C., and in Plymouth during the past year.
From page 5 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 19, 1926
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