J. A. Woodson (Packet, 1881-1898)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1881 at Louisville, Kentucky
• BECAME: W. H. Grapevine (1898)
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Rebuilt and renamed, 1898
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain L.P. Drake (master, 1882, 1884); Charles Musselman (clerk, 1882); James Bowlin (pilot, 1884); Rees Pritchard (pilot, 1884); Amos Day (purser, 1884); Harry H. Edwards (2nd clerk, 1884); George Ivey (mate, 1884); Green W. Johnson (chief engineer, 1884); George Ballou (2nd engineer, 1884); Captain David Silver (master, 1897); Jim Bolen (pilot); Joe Force (chief engineer)
• RIVERS: Arkansas River; White River; Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 2811; Named for the mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. Ran Little Rock-Pine Bluff. She ran to fight railroad rates. On December 18, 1887, she sank at Free Nigger Bend on the Arkansas River. On June 2, 1894, she sank again at Perrine Landing on the White River. In 1897, she had started for St. Louis when she was snagged and sunk above the elevator at Columbus, Kentucky. She was raised and taken to Mound City, Illinois where she was rebuilt and renamed
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Bales of cotton are strewn about on the ground and men are sitting on top of some of them. The J. A. Woodson is docked in the background