Family friend finds body of missing man in Ohiopyle Wednesday, June 11, 2008 By Lawrence Walsh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Homer Ray Brown promised a grieving mother that he would find her only son wherever his body might be in the Youghiogheny River. Mr. Brown, 39, of Sharon, a veteran outdoorsman and former lifeguard, accomplished that sorrowful goal shortly after noon yesterday. He found Esker H. Cottrill III facedown in the water near the left bank of the river, a place shaded by a large overhanging tree, about two miles downstream from Ohiopyle.