Note: .V. Thompson Journals, vol. 1, p. 33-39 JVT 33-34: He was drowned in the Allegheny River while crossing with some cattle near to or above Pittsburgh. His horse got out in deep water & he thought she wasn't swimming right & he got off, having his over coat on & undertook to swim ashore himself. He was an excellent swimmer & swam quite a good ways & then turned over on his back & swam on but the water & heavy coat carried him down. He says Uncle Joe Markle was there at the time. My recollection is that it was Capt James Carnahan that was drowned & the year was 1795. John Carnahan says that his grandfather's brother was there & wanted to jump in to help his brother out when he went down but three men took hold of him to prevent him, thinking that he too would drown & took their all to hold him. I asked him what this brothers name was but he did not know. I asked him where he lived & he said over here at the "Willow Tree" which makes it conclusive that it was John Carnahan who married Rebecca Carothers. He said they did not recover his body for two or three days & they buried him the back of a tree, that is peeled a tree & used the bark for a coffin. They would not have known who he was, none of them knowing him, except for the new knife which they found in his pocket & which his widow identified.
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