Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Curtis, Martin V.B. 1883
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Portland Weekly Observer, 18 Apr 1883

From the Lyons Herald we glean the following facts concerning the death by 
Drowning of MARTIN V.B. CURTIS, an old Resident of that place:  He had been 
Sick for sometime with the Asthma and While returning home at about 10 or 11 
O’clock in the night, he was taken with a fit of coughing and leaned over the 
railway on the lower end of the bridge, a position in which he had often been 
seen before, and lost his balance and being unable to call assistance was 
drowned in the race.  He was missed, search was made and his body found in the 
mill race lodged against one of the bridge timbers.  The inquest resulted in a 
verdict of death by accidental drowning, and the theory that he was intoxicated 
was totally disproved.


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