Emma Johnson
Kentucky Post, Monday, 18 May 1908, page 1
DREAMED OF DROWNING
Emma Johnson, 15, Bellevue Ky. dreamed Friday night she fell into a well and was drowned. Sunday she lost her life in a canoe accident in the Ohio River. Two boys had taken four girls for a skiff ride. As they passed between the shore and a sand digger the rope attached to the latter was pulled up under the small boat and it capsized.
May Phaller and Emma Johnson grabbed Herrmann by the shoulders and he started to swim with them to the shore. The strength of the little Johnson girl gave way and she sank from view.
Miss Johnson had been living with Dr. Anna Wolfram, Bellevue Ky. Her mother is dead and she often expressed the wish that she could join her. Friday night she awoke from a horrible dream. She said she had been playing near a well when she fell in and was slowed drowned. Her body has not yet been recovered from the river. In 1906 her brother was terribly mangled by a C&O train. A month later the mother died and Emma and her younger sisters were placed in the Children's Home.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 27 May 1908, page 2
OHIO RIVER
The body of Emma Johnson, 15, who was one of the five pleasure
seekers who went out for a launch ride from the foot of Clay st. Dayton, was
discovered yesterday in mid-stream by Harry Tieman, Ward av. Bellevue, and
Joseph Buschert, Foot av. Bellevue and towed to Patchen av. The drowning
occurred last Sunday a week ago. Efforts have been made by dynamiting and
dragging. It was thought that the body was under the Houck sand digger in
Dayton.
Dr. Anna Wolfram, with whom the girl made her home, was called and identified the body by the clothing. Coroner Digby rendered a verdict of accidental drowning.