Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Buxton, Carl 1916
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Lake Odessa Wave, 21 Jul 1916

Double Drowning Near Vermontville

Glenn Friedly and Carl Buxton Taken with cramps in Scipio Pond.

Scipio pond, two miles west of Vermontville, was the scene of a double drowning 
Sunday afternoon.  Glen Friedly, aged 19, and Carl Buxton, aged 16, went into 
the water for a swim while overheated, and paid for their ill-advised act with 
lives.

The two boys with a companion, Andrew Dooling, rode their bicycles on ahead of 
several others who were following on foot, and went into the water before they 
were cooled off from the ride.  Dooling could not swim and stayed in shallow 
water.

There were several people fishing on the pond, but no attention was paid to the 
boys’ cries for help, at first.  Then they were seen to sink and efforts on the 
part of Dooling to reach them with a board were futile.  There were no boats on 
the pond, and the bodies were not recovered until Henry Gearhart, a nearby 
farmer, succeeded in hooking them with a garden rake in about 20 feet of water.

Carl Buxton was the son of Carl Buxton and lived near the pond.  Glen Friedly 
worked on a farm nearby, his parents, former Vermontville residents, having 
moved to Lansing.  The funeral was held Tuesday from the Kilmartin church and 
the remains were interred in Lakeside cemetery.


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