The first drowning of the 1936 season was recorded in Lawrence County late Monday afternoon, when Christian Eugene Wolfinger, 8 year old son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Wolfinger, of 1825 Fourth St. lost his life in a pond on the J.C. Kimmel farm located in Marshall Township about nine miles northwest of Bedford.
The body was recovered about 20 minutes after it disappeared beneath the waters, but efforts to restore life failed.
The boy went to the Kimmel home last Saturday to visit for a week with Mr Kimmel his uncle, and members of his family. Monday afternoon while suffering from a nose bleed the he went to the pond and applied water to his nose in an effort to stop the flow of blood. When he returned to the house his aunt warned him to remain away from the pond, but he went back and waded out in the water with his clothes on, while Mrs Kimmel was engaged in some household duties in her home.
Alice Marie Kimmel, 5 years old and James Kimmel, 4 years old, who witnessed the drowning, told their mother that the youth waded out into the pond, toppled over and the body never arose. Alice Marie who was in the yard at the home, was first to notify her mother of the drowning and said that she believed a strong wind in evidence at the time blew the lad over. James who was nearer the pond said that the unfortunate lad just toppled over while wading.
John, 15 years old, son of Mr and Mrs Kimmel, who was working in a field a short distance north of the pond, was summoned and wading out into the water under directionof his young brother and sister, located the body in a short time and brought it ashore and immediately began efforts to resuscitate life but without success.
Dr. R.B. Smallwood, called to the Kimmel farm, pronounced life extinct when he arrived and coroner Dr. Roland Wynne and Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar, on learning of the tragedy, hurried to the scene. Coroner Wynne rendered a verdict of death due to accidental drowning.
Parents of the youth were notified of the accident at their home here by O.D.Emerson, funeral director.
The body was brought to the Day & Carter Funeral home here for burial preparation and was returned to the home this morning to lie in state until the funeral arranged for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Free Methodist Church with the Rev. Joseph Black pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in Green Hill Cemetery here.
The youth was born in Bedford to Andrew and Ruby Short Wolfinger on October 13, 1927. Besides the parents he is survived by a sister, Lula Irene, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fret Short and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Storer.
Taken from the Bedford Newspaper
The body was recovered about 20 minutes after it disappeared beneath the waters, but efforts to restore life failed.
The boy went to the Kimmel home last Saturday to visit for a week with Mr Kimmel his uncle, and members of his family. Monday afternoon while suffering from a nose bleed the he went to the pond and applied water to his nose in an effort to stop the flow of blood. When he returned to the house his aunt warned him to remain away from the pond, but he went back and waded out in the water with his clothes on, while Mrs Kimmel was engaged in some household duties in her home.
Alice Marie Kimmel, 5 years old and James Kimmel, 4 years old, who witnessed the drowning, told their mother that the youth waded out into the pond, toppled over and the body never arose. Alice Marie who was in the yard at the home, was first to notify her mother of the drowning and said that she believed a strong wind in evidence at the time blew the lad over. James who was nearer the pond said that the unfortunate lad just toppled over while wading.
John, 15 years old, son of Mr and Mrs Kimmel, who was working in a field a short distance north of the pond, was summoned and wading out into the water under directionof his young brother and sister, located the body in a short time and brought it ashore and immediately began efforts to resuscitate life but without success.
Dr. R.B. Smallwood, called to the Kimmel farm, pronounced life extinct when he arrived and coroner Dr. Roland Wynne and Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar, on learning of the tragedy, hurried to the scene. Coroner Wynne rendered a verdict of death due to accidental drowning.
Parents of the youth were notified of the accident at their home here by O.D.Emerson, funeral director.
The body was brought to the Day & Carter Funeral home here for burial preparation and was returned to the home this morning to lie in state until the funeral arranged for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Free Methodist Church with the Rev. Joseph Black pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in Green Hill Cemetery here.
The youth was born in Bedford to Andrew and Ruby Short Wolfinger on October 13, 1927. Besides the parents he is survived by a sister, Lula Irene, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fret Short and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Storer.
Taken from the Bedford Newspaper
The first drowning of the 1936 season was recorded in Lawrence County late Monday afternoon, when Christian Eugene Wolfinger, 8 year old son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Wolfinger, of 1825 Fourth St. lost his life in a pond on the J.C. Kimmel farm located in Marshall Township about nine miles northwest of Bedford.
The body was recovered about 20 minutes after it disappeared beneath the waters, but efforts to restore life failed.
The boy went to the Kimmel home last Saturday to visit for a week with Mr Kimmel his uncle, and members of his family. Monday afternoon while suffering from a nose bleed the he went to the pond and applied water to his nose in an effort to stop the flow of blood. When he returned to the house his aunt warned him to remain away from the pond, but he went back and waded out in the water with his clothes on, while Mrs Kimmel was engaged in some household duties in her home.
Alice Marie Kimmel, 5 years old and James Kimmel, 4 years old, who witnessed the drowning, told their mother that the youth waded out into the pond, toppled over and the body never arose. Alice Marie who was in the yard at the home, was first to notify her mother of the drowning and said that she believed a strong wind in evidence at the time blew the lad over. James who was nearer the pond said that the unfortunate lad just toppled over while wading.
John, 15 years old, son of Mr and Mrs Kimmel, who was working in a field a short distance north of the pond, was summoned and wading out into the water under directionof his young brother and sister, located the body in a short time and brought it ashore and immediately began efforts to resuscitate life but without success.
Dr. R.B. Smallwood, called to the Kimmel farm, pronounced life extinct when he arrived and coroner Dr. Roland Wynne and Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar, on learning of the tragedy, hurried to the scene. Coroner Wynne rendered a verdict of death due to accidental drowning.
Parents of the youth were notified of the accident at their home here by O.D.Emerson, funeral director.
The body was brought to the Day & Carter Funeral home here for burial preparation and was returned to the home this morning to lie in state until the funeral arranged for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Free Methodist Church with the Rev. Joseph Black pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in Green Hill Cemetery here.
The youth was born in Bedford to Andrew and Ruby Short Wolfinger on October 13, 1927. Besides the parents he is survived by a sister, Lula Irene, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fret Short and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Storer.
Taken from the Bedford Newspaper
The body was recovered about 20 minutes after it disappeared beneath the waters, but efforts to restore life failed.
The boy went to the Kimmel home last Saturday to visit for a week with Mr Kimmel his uncle, and members of his family. Monday afternoon while suffering from a nose bleed the he went to the pond and applied water to his nose in an effort to stop the flow of blood. When he returned to the house his aunt warned him to remain away from the pond, but he went back and waded out in the water with his clothes on, while Mrs Kimmel was engaged in some household duties in her home.
Alice Marie Kimmel, 5 years old and James Kimmel, 4 years old, who witnessed the drowning, told their mother that the youth waded out into the pond, toppled over and the body never arose. Alice Marie who was in the yard at the home, was first to notify her mother of the drowning and said that she believed a strong wind in evidence at the time blew the lad over. James who was nearer the pond said that the unfortunate lad just toppled over while wading.
John, 15 years old, son of Mr and Mrs Kimmel, who was working in a field a short distance north of the pond, was summoned and wading out into the water under directionof his young brother and sister, located the body in a short time and brought it ashore and immediately began efforts to resuscitate life but without success.
Dr. R.B. Smallwood, called to the Kimmel farm, pronounced life extinct when he arrived and coroner Dr. Roland Wynne and Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar, on learning of the tragedy, hurried to the scene. Coroner Wynne rendered a verdict of death due to accidental drowning.
Parents of the youth were notified of the accident at their home here by O.D.Emerson, funeral director.
The body was brought to the Day & Carter Funeral home here for burial preparation and was returned to the home this morning to lie in state until the funeral arranged for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Free Methodist Church with the Rev. Joseph Black pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in Green Hill Cemetery here.
The youth was born in Bedford to Andrew and Ruby Short Wolfinger on October 13, 1927. Besides the parents he is survived by a sister, Lula Irene, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fret Short and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Storer.
Taken from the Bedford Newspaper
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