John R. Graham, 36, telegraph operator and station agent, saved George W. Thomason, 30, farmer, and attempted to save C. Lee Lipscomb, 27, farmer, from drowning, Thickety, South Carolina, May 9, 1910. Graham, fully clothed and carrying a meal sack at his side containing five pounds of fish, swam 13 feet to Lipscomb, who, unable to swim, had stepped into water over his depth while he and Thomason were seining in Little Thickety Creek. Thomason had attempted to pull Lipscomb out by grabbing the seine, but he also got into deep water and struggled by himself. After being grabbed and taken under twice by Lipscomb, Graham freed himself with difficulty, rose, and, in a weakened condition, swam to an overhanging branch of a tree. Lipscomb did not come up. Graham saw Thomason go down about six feet from him and, holding to the branch, managed to catch Thomason’s hand. Dragging him to the branch, he shoved him partly upon the bank. A man arrived and helped both to the bank. Thomason was revived. 5943-568
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