STEWART COUNTY, Tenn.— On the evening of November 26, 2024, officers from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources responded to a report concerning an overdue boater. Upon their arrival at Kentucky Lake in Stewart County, the officers discovered a deceased individual.
Preliminary investigations reveal that 63-year-old Mark Powell had launched a small Jon boat from Piney Campground to work on a duck blind. Mr. Powell was unfortunately found deceased in the water near the boat ramp. His vessel, equipped solely with a trolling motor, was located against the bank approximately 65 yards from the ramp.
This incident marks the second boating-related fatality on Kentucky Lake for the current year and the 22nd such fatality on Tennessee waterways this year.