23 Feb 1906, Fri • Page 1
BAHL BOYS DROWNING
Lawrence and Wilfred, ages 7 and 6, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bahl, broke through the ice at the creek near their home one mile west of town, about 5 o'clock p.m. Sunday and were drowned.
Leaving his three boys at home with their mother, Mr. Bahl went to the creek to examine the ice with a view of filling a store house next day and was not aware that the boys followed until the youngest, a lad of five years, came running with the announcement that his brother Wilfred had fallen through the ice. It seems that the older boy, in attempting to rescue his brother, had also slipped in, for when Mr. Bahl arrived on the scene the boys' caps, floating on the water, confirmed this belief.
Under one cap was found the lifeless body of Wilford and it was not until about six o'clock, and after the dam on the creek was opened and the water allowed to escape, that the body of Lawrence was found. A drag made of a twenty-foot strand of barbed wire, weighted down in the middle with stone, the ends carried by men on either bank, was the instrument used in locating the body of the missing boy.
Although deeply grieved and almost benumbed from wading to the arm-pits in the ice and water for nearly an hour, Mr. Bahl refused to be comforted and insisted on carrying the remains of his dead son in his arms to the house, a half mile distant. The change in scene at the home of the grief-stricken parents is one that cannot be described.
They beheld their two innocent boys, full of life and promise, playing in the yard and an hour later see them sleeping side by side in cold death. Strong men who had not wept for years, turned aside and sobbed aloud.
After funeral services at St. Joseph's Church, on Monday at 4 p.m., the remains were followed to the Catholic Cemetery and there laid to rest. The parents have the sympathy of all in their great loss.
Lovingly submitted by Michael and Cheryl J Smith Hess, parents of a lost son also.
Contributor: History of an Old Border Town Genealogical Center (48051734)
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Burial Date: 19 February 1906
23 Feb 1906, Fri • Page 1
BAHL BOYS DROWNING
Lawrence and Wilfred, ages 7 and 6, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bahl, broke through the ice at the creek near their home one mile west of town, about 5 o'clock p.m. Sunday and were drowned.
Leaving his three boys at home with their mother, Mr. Bahl went to the creek to examine the ice with a view of filling a store house next day and was not aware that the boys followed until the youngest, a lad of five years, came running with the announcement that his brother Wilfred had fallen through the ice. It seems that the older boy, in attempting to rescue his brother, had also slipped in, for when Mr. Bahl arrived on the scene the boys' caps, floating on the water, confirmed this belief.
Under one cap was found the lifeless body of Wilford and it was not until about six o'clock, and after the dam on the creek was opened and the water allowed to escape, that the body of Lawrence was found. A drag made of a twenty-foot strand of barbed wire, weighted down in the middle with stone, the ends carried by men on either bank, was the instrument used in locating the body of the missing boy.
Although deeply grieved and almost benumbed from wading to the arm-pits in the ice and water for nearly an hour, Mr. Bahl refused to be comforted and insisted on carrying the remains of his dead son in his arms to the house, a half mile distant. The change in scene at the home of the grief-stricken parents is one that cannot be described.
They beheld their two innocent boys, full of life and promise, playing in the yard and an hour later see them sleeping side by side in cold death. Strong men who had not wept for years, turned aside and sobbed aloud.
After funeral services at St. Joseph's Church, on Monday at 4 p.m., the remains were followed to the Catholic Cemetery and there laid to rest. The parents have the sympathy of all in their great loss.
Lovingly submitted by Michael and Cheryl J Smith Hess, parents of a lost son also.
Contributor: History of an Old Border Town Genealogical Center (48051734)
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Burial Date: 19 February 1906
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Lawrence Bahl
1898–1906
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Wendell Joseph Bahl
1900–1979
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Albert Joseph Bahl
1901–1983
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Sr M. Mark Bahl
1902–1942
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Alice Bahl Brown
1904–1992
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Sr Cordelia Marie Bahl
1905–1995
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Joseph Bahl
1906–1906
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Julius Marcus Bahl
1907–1988
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Agnes Bahl
1909–1996
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PVT Andrew Donald Bahl
1910–1944
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Jane Bahl
1911–1917
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Lucille Ann Bahl Weissbeck
1913–2009
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Charles Robert Bahl
1916–1985
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Richard Cecil Bahl
1917–2008
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