Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Oswego Morning Herald Monday, November 4, 1878 LOSS OF THE SCHOONER J. P. MARCH. Captain JOHN DEBBAGE of this City, and three of the Crew Drowned on Lake Michigan. The violent storm which swept over the lakes last week, brought death to the door of one Oswego woman, as the following telegram received by Messrs. Daniel Lyons & Son, yesterday, shows: Good Harbor Via Leland, Mich., November 2d. D. Lyons & Son, Oswego: The schooner J. P. Marsh was wrecked Oct. 30th at 11 o'clock at night. Captain JOHN DEBBAGE, FRANK ANDRESS, JAMES MURRAY and MARY MURRAY (cook) drowned. Funeral to-day at four o'clock. If desired to remove captain, I will deliver the body forthwith to nearest station, Traverse City. JACOB KOCH. Captain JOHN DEBBAGE was a resident of this city, and lived at No. 64 East Fifth street. He was a good citizen, a man of excellent habits and was respected by every one who knew him. He leaves a wife and an adopted son to mourn the loss of a kind and provident husband and father. He fitted out the schooner March, and was in her from the time she was launched up to the time of his death. The first two years he was mate, and the past twelve years he commanded her. Mr. AMASA A. BROWN, of Brown's Hotel, who married Captain DEBBAGE'S step-daughter, telegraphed Mr. KOCH, yesterday, to send the body by express immediately. Captain DEBBAGE was a member of Frontier City Lodge F. and A. M., and the body will doubtless be buried here with Masonic honors. We cannot learn where the rest of the crew lived. The March was coal laden from Cleveland for Chicago. She was a three-masted schooner of 355 tons measurement, was built at Vermillion in 1864, repaired in 1874, and valued at $8,100. She was owned by BENTON & PIERCE, of Chicago and Captain DEBBAGE, the latter one-eighth. The Lloyd's register classified her as B1 - but we think there must be a mistake as she was carrying grain, and a vessel of that classification would not receive a cargo of grain. She was too large to pass through the Welland canal. Good Harbor, where she was wrecked, is in the vicinity of Grand Traverse Bay, foot of Lake Michigan. It will be remembered that the yawl of the ill-fated schooner Gilbert Mollison, which was lost on Lake Michi- gan the latter part of October four years ago, was found at Good Harbor. ==========================================================================