Payette-Ada County ID Archives Obituaries.....Cressy, Hiram H. 1916
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Payette Enterprise 2-3-1916
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, February 3, 1916
 
SMALL BOY PERISHES IN SNOW NEAR BOISE
 
AND OLDER BROTHER FOUND IN OLD SHED WITH HIS FEET AND LIMBS BADLY FROZEN
 
Hiram Cressy, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer C. Cressy, of Boise, 
was found frozen to death in a snow-drift Sunday about noon ten miles out from 
that city, and his brother, John Cressy, 8 years of age, was discovered barely 
alive a short distance beyond, where he had crept into a shed for protection.  
Both feet and one hand were frozen.  The older brother was found in a shed 
near a farm house.  His little legs protruded from the door, and in his 
frantic efforts to protect himself from the cold he had partially torn the 
clothes from his body.
 
The two children started out with their little bobsled shortly after 1 o'clock 
Saturday to "hitch."  Nothing was thought of their absence until they failed 
to appear at supper time.  Even then the parents did not worry, for the 
children were often late, but at 7 o'clock it was thought best to make 
inquiries about the neighborhood.  No one had seen anything of the children 
and the father and Hiram Hart, a close friend of the family, who had been 
notified of the absence of the boys, started out to search the picture shows, 
which the children often visited.
 
POLICE NOTIFIED
When no trace of them could be found at the movies, the police department was 
notified about 9 o'clock and later, after a fruitless search of the city, the 
sheriff's office was notified at 11 o'clock that night.  The officers agreed 
to go out at once if the father or Mr. Hart could give them any idea what road 
to take.  This they were unable to do.
 
The father was then persuaded that the children had gone too far out to walk 
back, and failing to find any teams coming back, had gone to some nearby house 
where there was no telephone to communicate with town and were staying there 
over night.  So nothing more was done until morning.  Early Sunday Mr. Hart 
went to the family home and finding no word had been received from the 
children it occurred to him that possibly they had started to visit their 
grandparents, who live in Cottonwood gulch, about 14 miles up the river on the 
south side.
 
The grandparents have no telephone, but Mr. Hart commenced telephoning along 
the line.  At the Holcomb school, four miles up the river, he learned that two 
children had been seen hitched to a wagon.  At the J. G. Breckenridge home it 
was learned that they were seen going by about 4 o'clock.
 
The sheriff's office was again notified and Mr. Hart learned that Deputy 
Sheriff Sommerville had been out since 7 o'clock in the morning.  He was given 
the new clew and the father, Mr. Hart and Mr. Marsden also started out with a 
team at 11 o'clock.
 
SLED TRACKS FOUND
After they passed the Oakes place they could plainly see the sled tracks along 
the side of the road for a time, then apparently they would succeed in getting 
a "hitch," for the tracks would stop, then, a half mile or so further, start 
in again.  Sometimes the sled tracks would swerve out of the road 10 or 12 
feet and come back again.  Later there was only one track and evidently the 
sled was weighted down and the suposition was that the older boy had drawn the 
younger one because of his weariness.  It was thought that possibly this was 
the reason the younger child chilled so soon.
 
When the father and Mr. Hart and Mr. Marsden reached a point in the road about 
opposite the Barber mill they met the sheriff's auto coming  back.  In it were 
the two boys, one dead, the other unconscious.
 
The father learned that the children had been found on the branch road leading 
to their grandparents' ranch, a short distance from the main road.  It is 
thought they had "hitched" to that point and then concluded to go to their 
grandparents, when cold over took them.
 
Note:  According to the Idaho Death Index, Hiram H. Cressy was born 3-14-1910 
and died 1-30-1916.  ch

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