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Note: NINTH GENERATION JAMES, WAS A YOUNG MAN WHEN HE DROWN.HE DROWNED IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT NEW MADRID, MO. HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS NEW SON JIMMIE CHEATHAM WHEN A FRIEND JACK BROWN ASKED HIM TO GO BOAT RIDING WITH HIM. In THE BOAT JAMES ALSO NICKED NAMED FAT, STOOD UP IN THE BOAT SAID HOPE YOU CAN AWIM JACK I'M GOING TO TURN THIS BOAT OVER, HE DID,BUT HE DID NOT MAKE IT. JACK ALMOST DROWN himself.
JAMES ROBERT CHEATHAM,son of Jessie Cheatham & Ethel Mary Derousse,b.28 June 1923 Portageville,New Madrid,Co. Mo. d. 7 Mar. 1942 New Madrid Co. New Madrid, Mo(drowned in the Mississippi River.) Burried Portageville Cem. m. 15 Feb. 1941, to Ruby May Bartlett dau of Jess W. Bartlett & Ludie Frances Weatherford,b 23 April 1923(she later married Bill Woods)
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