Six Year Old Boy Drowned Saturday Forenoon
When his pet dog crowded him off a foot bridge at his home, six year old Jackie Eshom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Eshom, was drowned Saturday forenoon in the Hanaford creek about two miles northeast of Centralia. The child's nine year old sister, Joyce Eshom, who was with him when the accident occurred, rushed to her father with the news. Mr. Eshom hurried to the scene and dived a number of times in an unsuccessful effort to recover the body. Later members of the Centralia fire department, Sheriff J. A. Blankenship and others from his office, as well as friends helped carry on the search. Up to the time the Bee-Nugget goes to press the body had not been recovered and it is feared that it floated out of the Hanaford into the Skookumchuck river. In addition to the parents and the sister, Jackie is survived by a brother, Hal Eshom, aged 11.
Source: The Chehalis Bee-Nugget, 27 November 1931, front page. Microfilm available at Washington State Library, 6880 Capitol Boulevard South, Tumwater, WA. 98512
Transcribed by Kathryn Lester. She has no further information on this individual.
[Editor's note: Jackie Eshom was buried at Sticklin Greenwood Cemetery in Centralia, Lewis Co., Washington. According to the Washington State Death Records, his full name was Jack Ernest Eshom, son of Ernest and Gladys (Jackson) Eshom.]