Asheville, April 9—John Cotton, popular son of Dr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Cotton of Asheville, was drowned shortly before 3 o’clock this afternoon in Osceola lake, one mile from Hendersonville, when a small boat in which he was rowing along capsized in 25 feet of water, according to word received here.
The boy was seen struggling in the water by two highway workmen who were dragging the road nearby, but went under before aid could reach him at a distance about 30 feet from the bank. He had made his way from a point said to have been about 100 feet from shore.
The body was recovered within 10 minutes by Roy Williams, who dived in the icy waters, but the boy was pronounced dead by Coroner A.L. Beck, who was summoned to the scene immediately.
Lake Osceola is a pleasure resort but had not been opened for the season.
Young Cotton was graduated from Asheville high school in June 1923.There he had been football cheer leader, head boy and president of the senior class. Later he entered the University of North Carolina and was a student there until the fall of1925. Recently he had lived in Hendersonville and had been a real estate salesman.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 10, 1926
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