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- GARRISON, Dewey
“Elizabethton Star,” Wednesday, April 24, 1935
D. GARRISON, 37, IS FOUND DEAD AT NOON
Meets Death Building Fish Nets in Watauga River
Dewey Garrison, aged 37, drowned in the Watauga river about one mile above Elizabethton shortly before noon today.
Garrison had been making rock dams for the placing of fishnets when the accident by which he met his death happened. He had finished with one net and started on another when, according to the coroner's verdict, he had apparently “slipped and fallen, striking his head against a rock, rendering him unconscious.” He then drowned in water only eighteen inches deep. An examination of his body showed a bruised place on the right side of his head.
The body was discovered by Mrs. Charles Elliot who lives along the river near the scene of the tragedy, across the stream from the Thomas farm. The woman phoned Elizabethton undertakers who rushed to the scene accompanied by Sheriff J. M. Moreland.
Porter Nave, county coroner, called a jury together and held an inquest. Members of the coroner's jury were Sheriff J. M. Moreland, Judd Nave, J. A. Johnson, Roy Hathaway, Ross Hart, and Earl Dyke. They reported the man had been dead for several minutes when found. The body was found about six feet below the wall, which the man had been building.
The man had been wearing shoes but had his trousers rolled above the knees.
Garrison lived with his mother, Mrs. J. L. Garrison, on East Street. He is a native of Carter County and had lived here all of his life. He had not had a regular job lately, but was last employed by the city. Reports from his home were that he had left forty-five minutes before they heard of his death, about 12 noon.
Funeral arrangements have not been made.
Survivors are his mother; five brothers, Ross, Ollie, Arthur, and Jack, all of Elizabethton, and Ben of Abingdon, Va.; and two sisters, Mrs. Dan Perry and May Garrison of Elizabethton.
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1898 - 1935 (~ 36 years)
