Butler-Taylor County IA Archives News.....Child Drowned September 23, 1876
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Vicky Rafn mrs.beaver@comcast.net March 5, 2006, 6:42 pm

Iowa Southwest September 23, 1876
From the Page co. Herald we learn that on last Saturday morning a man named 
Reeves from Fremont county, was on his way to visit his sister-in-law in 
Taylor county. He was traveling in a light two-horse wagon in which were 
himself, wife, and three children, the youngest an infant of about twenty 
months. There was also in the wagon the clothing, bedding etc., of the family. 
The Nodaway river was out of its banks, and in attempting to cross the wash-
out between the old and new bridges, east of town, the wagon was upset, 
throwing the family and the household goods into the water, and carrying them 
into the middle of the river. The alarm was given, and Jacob Crabill and a 
part of his brick yard hands started to their relief. 
Mr. Crabill found the Mother and children still afloat nearly half a mile 
below where they had been thrown in, and swam out and finally got them to 
shore. The mother and two children had managed to get in the top of the 
upturned wagon box, and he found the babe floating at the end of the box, but 
dead. The family was in a destitute condition, but the good people of our town 
provided them with a coffin for the dead child, about $20 in money, dry 
clothing for the rescued ones, and they started to return home with sad hearts 
and their dead baby. That the mother and all the children were not drowned is 
almost a miracle.


Additional Comments:
I have no other information on this family as they are not in my ancestral 
line.

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