The funeral of Frederick Secor, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Secor, who was drowned in the watering trough on a farm near Henderson Wednesday noon, will be held at 2 Friday afternoon at Smithville. Interment will be made in Smithville cemetery. The child was found in the watering trough Wednesday afternoon and It is believed that he had been in the water about an hour. Efforts were made to resuscitate him, but failed. Shortly after the noon dinner the child was playing in the yard. He wandered down to the trough in the rear of the bouse, a distance of about ten rods, and was leaning over playing in the water with his hands He lost his balance and fell into the water. The trough is about two feet long and four feet wide and contained about two and a half feet of water, intended for cattle and horses. The parents missed the child, not having seen him about in nearly a hour and a search was started. His father found him in the trough. Dr. H. C. Montgomery of Henderson was summoned and the pulmotor of the Northern New York Utilities, Inc., was brought to the Secor house by automobile, being ordered by telephone. Besides the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Secor. two sisters, Ethel aged eight; Edna, aged six, and one brother Robert, aged five, survive. The child's grandfather, J. N. Secor, of Arlington street, also survives. The Secors have lived on the farm which is about a mile and half from Henderson toward Smithville, during the paat four years, coming there from Williamstown, N. Y., where they have made their home since their marriage. The child's mother was formerly Miss Lillian Elmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Elmore of Camden. The Secor family also resided in Camden, several years ago

Watertown Daily Times July 1917