Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....QUILLET, JOSEPH DANIEL August 15, 1915
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Gladwin County Record dated 08-19/1915 Column - 4 Page - 1
DROWNED IN RIVER

JOSEPH QUELLET, 16 YEARS OLD MEETS DEATH WHILE IN SWIMMING SUNDAY.

TOBACCO DAM SCENE OF SAD FATALITY -- WAS BRIGHT AND PROMISING BOY.

   Joseph Daniel Quellett, the 16 year old son of Elmer and Bertha Quellett, 
of Tobacco, accidently drowned while in bathing Sunday morning, Aug. 15. 
Joseph had visited the night before Walter and Wesley Raymond, staying with 
them, and had gone with them to the Tobacco dam to go in bathing and there 
lost his life. He was in the water over two hours. Dr. Pierce was called and 
with the entire neighborhood used every known means to save the boy but 
without avail.
   He was a good swimmer, but evidently was taken with cramps. He called for 
help, but the other boys were unable to rescue him.   Joseph was the eldest of 
eight children, and leaves father, mother and seven brothers and sisters. He 
was a boy of good disposition, very promising in school, and will be greatly 
missed. He passed the eighth grade examination last May, and was intending to 
commence school, next month in the Beaverton high school.
   Funeral Wednesday at the home and interment in Dale cemetery. 

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