Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-08 | Page 18 | Body of Drowned Man is Recovered

OF n OWNED M MIN N IS En I The body of ot Thomas IT ll CIa Clay 28 liD vho was drowned In the Green river ne near r Jensen Tuesday at I p. p m ra was recovered early Wednesday morning by a group roup of st state slate tc road commission workers S Mr Mr Cla Clay whose home is In Bount f tv was a a. computer In an engineerIng engineer- engineer Ing party employed by the road commIssIon commission com corn mission on a road project near Jensen With several other workers he had gone swimming in hi the Green river near the Jensen bridge Tuesday eve eve- ning Water Wat-er there is generally about four feet deep but it Is believed he sank In a river hole NEW CHILD BORN BORNe The rhe e tragedy occurred Just a few hours after the victims victim's third child chUd I w was born in Bountiful His wife was wasn n not ot t Informed of the fatal accident however i companions saw him go under according to reports here and when hen henho he ho failed to emerge they became alarmed and divers started searching f for r him Nets were cere drawn across the stream but the body was not recovered recovered recovered re re- re- re covered until Wednesday morning Mr Clay was born at Bountiful February 17 1903 a son of Henry and Esther Lou Clay At the time of his death he was working on the road project under supervision of J. J C C. C resident engineer for the state sUite road commission who notified the commission here of the accident He married Ada Bragger of Willard In InJune June 1923 Surviving In addition to his widow are his parents three children Norma Gene William Keith Clay and the son born Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- d day y and eight brothers and sisters Mrs Nora Mitchell Mrs Esther Layton Lay Lay- ton toz Mrs Maud Hayward Richard V. V G George orge P. P Vernon Evan Evah and Edward Clay all nil of Bountiful