Advertisement

Patrick C. Reel

Advertisement

Patrick C. Reel

Birth
Death
16 Jul 1896 (aged 0–1)
Washington County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
View Source
Suggest Edits
A sad drowning accident occurred at Eakle's Mills on Saturday when PATRICK KEARNEY, the 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Reel, fell into a rainbarrel containing about two feet of water and drowned with no one to help. One of the older children had taken a bucket of water from the barrel by getting on a chair. The chair was left by the side of the barrel, and the child was prompted to investigate the barrel and its contents. Climbing up on the chair he leaned over to look at the water over balanced and fell in. He was missed by his mother, but as the father often took the child with him to the shop when he had some work to do there, no one was alarmed. The father in the course of half an hour came in without the child and search was at once instituted. In a few minutes the father found the missing child in the rain barrel.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. B.R. Carnahan, at the home of the parents on Sunday evening at 4 o''clock, after which the body was taken to Sharpsburg and interred in Mountain View Cemetery.

Source: Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Friday, July 24, 1896
**********
Son of T.H. & Mary Reel. Age 1y4m
***********
A sad drowning accident occurred at Eakle's Mills on Saturday when PATRICK KEARNEY, the 16 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Reel, fell into a rainbarrel containing about two feet of water and drowned with no one to help. One of the older children had taken a bucket of water from the barrel by getting on a chair. The chair was left by the side of the barrel, and the child was prompted to investigate the barrel and its contents. Climbing up on the chair he leaned over to look at the water over balanced and fell in. He was missed by his mother, but as the father often took the child with him to the shop when he had some work to do there, no one was alarmed. The father in the course of half an hour came in without the child and search was at once instituted. In a few minutes the father found the missing child in the rain barrel.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. B.R. Carnahan, at the home of the parents on Sunday evening at 4 o''clock, after which the body was taken to Sharpsburg and interred in Mountain View Cemetery.

Source: Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Friday, July 24, 1896
**********
Son of T.H. & Mary Reel. Age 1y4m
***********

Family Members

Parents
Siblings

Advertisement

See more Reel memorials in:

Flower Delivery Sponsor and Remove Ads

Explore more

Advertisement

  • Created by: Sanebee
  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99952185/patrick_c-reel: accessed ), memorial page for Patrick C. Reel (1895–16 Jul 1896), Find a Grave Memorial ID 99952185, citing Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA; Maintained by Sanebee (contributor 47775620).