Three persons were drowned when a small outboard motor boat capsized in Diascund Creek near the mouth of the Chickahominy River. They were Robert E. Garnett, Jr., who live seven miles from Richmond on the River Road; Raymond Peay of near Seven Pines, and Miss Mable Davis of Richmond. Miss Lowis Owens, the fourth member of the party, was rescued.
-Smithfield Times, 15 May 1930
Dynamite Charge Brings Third Victim of Tragedy In Chickahominy River to The Surface Yesterday.
RICHMOND, May 13—(AP)—The body of Miss Mable Pearl Davis, 21, was found at 10 o’clock yesterday morning in the Chickahominy River, three days after she and two men were drowned. It will be sent today, for burial, to her family home at Dillwyn. Dynamite brought the body to the surface about 300 yards from the spot where the boat in which she was riding with Raymond Peay, Robert Garnett, Jr., and Miss Lowis Owens, capsized. Miss Owens made her way to a swamp and was rescued.
Miss Davis, who had resided at 2310 East Broad street, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie W. Davis, of Dillwyn. Besides her parents, four sisters and three brothers survive. One of these sisters, Miss Virgie Davis, lives at 14 East Main street.
Walter Dawson, deputy motor vehicle commissioner, and Henrico County Officer J.O. Blakenship, who had charge of the searching party which dragged the river night and day to recover the body, turned the body over to Woody’s Funeral Parlor. The body will be shipped from Richmond by the Chesapeake and Ohio at 11:40 o’clock this morning to Bremo Bluff, where relatives will meet the train. The bodies of the drowned men were found Friday night and Saturday morning. Miss Owens was the sole survivor of the tragedy.
-Suffolk News-Herald, 13 May 1930
