Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cutler, Luella (Bentley) July 1, 1907
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Daily Sentinel - Friday, July 5, 1907

                           MRS. CUTLERS BODY FOUND
                THIS MORNING FLOATING IN TWO FEET OF WATER.
Learned Thursday Evening Near (illegible word) Chambers's Body was   
(illegible word) and a Piece of Her Dress was Brought up by the Searchers.

The body of Mrs. George J. Cutler was recovered this morning and the anxiety 
over the sad affair in a measure makes it easier to bear. The searchers 
worked until late in the evening of the fourth of July and at the last 
moment before darkness, had settled over the lake, the grappling hook gave 
them a hard pull. They were out in the lake near where chambers body was 
found. While the hook was brought up they found a piece of Mrs. Cutlers 
dress hanging to it.

With this good fortune as a result of a days strenuous endeavor, and an 
approaching storm upon them, they marked the place and gave up the task 
until morning, feeling confident that the lady would be located early. 

At 4:30 or 5 o'clock, this morning when they were returning to the lake the 
body was found floating in two feet of water near the shore. Undertaker 
Bradley was called for, but having three bodies on his hands here could not 
go, and Undertaker Dresser, of Big Rapids, took charge of the remains. It 
was expected that a metalic casket, which had been ordered from Grand 
Rapids, would be there this morning so that the remains will reach Ionia 
this afternoon at 5:30. 

The first encouraging news came to Ionia that evening when Will J. Winchell 
phoned Bert Lampkin that the body had been located. At 5 this morning Mr. 
Winchell again called up and said that the body had been found. Mr. Winchell 
had been one of the hardest workers, and at Mr. Cutlers request was to stay 
there today and direct operations. Will Peer, another worker, came home 
Thursday noon, as he was obliged to go to Chicago. 

A patrol was to be established this morning at the lake, as the authorities 
there warned the searchers that in all probability the body would rise the 
fourth day. It is supposed the grappling hook loosened the body on the 
evening of the fourth, so that it soon came to the surface of the water. It 
would have been four days in the water at noon today.

Fred Wertman, Mayor Bible, W. C. Snell, Martin Weiler were others who were 
with Mr. Cutler at the lake on the fourth.

Harvey Bentley, who went north with his daughter, came home Thursday with 
Mr. Peer, and was left at Stanton where he is with his brother, Hal. Mr. 
Bentley is bearing up as well as could be expected, and is not seriously 
affected as reported. 

The funeral for Mrs. Cutler will be attended at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon 
from the residence.

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Sunday, 7 July 1907
Highland Park cemetery #5-17


Birth:  Aug. 17, 1871
Michigan, USA 
Death:  Jul. 5, 1907
Chippewa Lake
Mecosta County
Michigan, USA 

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DROWNED BY A FISH.

FIFTEEN-POUND PICKEREL UPSETS BOAT, THROWING OUT OCCUPANTS.

Detroit, July 6. -- After hooking a 15-pound pickerel MRS. GEORGE CUTLER and 
CHARLES T. CHAMBERS, both of Ionia, Mich., lost their lives in Chippewa lake 
in attempting to land the fish. The pickerel was hooked upon a trolling line 
and running under the keel upset the boat, throwing CHAMBERS and MRS. CUTLER 
into the water, drowning them.
Searching parties with grappling irons brought the fish to the surface dead 
and still attached to the hook. The bodies of CHAMBERS and MRS. CUTLER have 
not as yet been found.
The drowned woman was spending a vacation with her father and young son at 
Chippewa lake. CHAMBERS is a neighbor of the CUTLERS at Ionia.

The Indiana Progress Pennsylvania 1907-07-17 



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