Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Oster, Theodore W. 1915
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Payette Enterprise 6-17-1915
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, June 17, 1915

CHILD DROWNED IN PAYETTE DITCH

DEAD BODY OF LITTLE THEODORE OSTER FOUND IN IRRIGATION DITCH AFTER ALL NIGHT 
SEARCH

The dead body of little Theodore Oster, the six-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilhelm Oster, was found in the Lower Payette Ditch, about nine o'clock Monday 
morning, at a point near the Crystal school house, after the parents and 
neighbors had put in the entire night hunting for the child.

The little boy was first missed by the Oster family, who reside about four 
miles north of Payette, a little after six o'clock Sunday evening. Search was 
immediately instituted by the parents, who were shortly after joined by a 
number of their neighbors, every effort being put forth to find the lost 
child. Soon after the alarm had been given the water was turned out of the 
canal and while one party was making a careful search along its banks others 
were hunting through the neighborhood orchards and the sagebrush along the 
nearby foothills, hoping to find or get some trace of the missing child.

It was not until nine o'clock Monday morning that the dead body of the little 
boy was found, in the body of the canal, about three miles below the Oster 
home, where it had evidently lodged when the water was turned out of the 
canal. From certain marks on the body it is probable that the little fellow 
fell into the canal some distance away from where the body was found and that 
it was swept along by the swift current, coming in contact with more than one 
of the big irrigating wheels along the stream.

The funeral took place from the German Lutheran church in this city at 11 
o'clock Tuesday forenoon, being largely attended by the sympathizing neighbors 
and friends of the bereaved family.

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