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A boat on the Boykin's Mill Pond on Swift creek, about nine miles south of Camden, turned over and twenty four people drowned in sight of shore and almost within reach of frantic loved ones.
A group of young people from Camden and the vicinity of the Mill, which was located about two miles from Sumter County, had gathered for a church picnic. About four or five o’clock in the afternoon a group of fifty or so people boarded a large flat bottom boat for a pleasure trip on the pond and soon after leaving shore, hit a snag, sprang a leak and began to sink. In the panic, most jumped overboard and many drowned, they are here listed:
Amelia A. Alexander, of Camden, Selena Crosby, of Camden, Mary Hinson, of Camden, B. F.Hocott, of Arkansas, Sarah Ann Howell, of Camden, Joseph Huggins, of Sumter, Mary C. Jenkins, of Clarksons, Jane Kelley, of Boykins, Lucius LeGrand, of Camden, William LeGrand,of Camden
Louise McKeown, of Camden, Margaret McKeown, of Camden, Elizabeth McKagen, of Camden
William McKagen, of Camden, Jeremiah R. McLeod, of Sumter, Louisa Nettles, of Camden
John Oaks, of Camden, S. T. T. Richbourg, of Sumter, Alice Robinson, of Camden, Samuel H. Young, of Boykins, Two Misses Young, sisters of Samuel H. Young, Dorcas Page, a free negro
Pender Ciples, a negro slave.
Sources:
Camden Public Library, Camden Archives and Museum, Camden Chronicle, Friday May 18, 1865, Book: Historic Camden
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