Andrew McA. Stovall, Jr., 16, student, saved E. Irma Brotherton, 13, and Nannie M. Appling, 15, from drowning, Jasper, Alabama, August 18, 1913. Irma and another girl were with two boys in a rowboat on the Black Water River. They tried to take Nannie, who was clinging to the stern, aboard, but the boat capsized in water eight feet deep. Irma and Nannie seized one of the boys and made him helpless. The other boy saved the other girl. Andrew dived from a canoe and swam 30 feet to Irma and Nannie. The boy they had seized was released by them and swam ashore, and both girls seized Andrew around the neck. He sank two or three times with them and then succeeded in pushing Nannie at arm’s length from him. He then swam 25 feet to wadable water, holding Nannie and allowing Irma to hold him around the neck. His bathing suit was torn in the struggle with the girls. 11596-1305
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