Hickory, June 23—Edmund Grier, aged 15, was drowned this afternoon at Lake Broyhill, south of Lenoir, while playing in the water with four other youths of about the same age. None of the boys could swim and when young Greer ventured into deep water he was unable to save himself. In an effort to rescue his comrade, Hayden Land almost lost his life.
Aid was summoned by the boys but it was a half hour or more before the body was recovered by Frederick Sula, who dived into the lake and brought it to shore.
State Forester Sebron, who has a wide reputation as life saver, and two doctors of Lenoir worked for other two hours in an effort to resuscitate the lifeless body.
Greer was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Geer of east Lenoir.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926
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