Individual Details

Death

Newspaper article dated Dec. 28,1897,Lewistown,Logan Co.,OH
" One of the saddest accidents we have been called upon to chronicle was the drowning of the son of T F WARD and the son of Valentine WILSON in the Reservoir. They had gone for a skating last Friday afternoon and had taken a little sled with them and in their skating over the ice, they discovered two bass frozen in the ice. They procured an ax and chopped the two fish out and then it seems they started for their homes but never reached them. Their friends missing them in the evening they started on the hunt for them, and a Mr. GILLENWATER and Mr. NORVIEL started out on their skates and tracked them by the track made by the sled and found it with the two fish and a cap and one mitten on the edge of the hole where the bodies were found. By this time several people had gathered and with the assistance of a boat and some net hooks the bodies were recovered in just a short time, and were placed in the boat and pulled to the shore, when they were carried in the boat to their grief-stricken homes, when undertaker Kennedy was called and took charge of the bodies.
The double funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Lewistown M.P. Church conducted by Rev. Henkle. It was the largest funeral ever held in this place. It certainly was a sad spectable to see those two young bodies lying before us, and trebly sad that with the WILSON family this is the third death by accident. The first was thrown from a horse, the next by the explosion of nitro-glycerine, the last by drowning."
According to the record of his death,he was 13 years, 4 months old. The WARD boy was 12 years old.