Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Echerson, William 1923
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The Belding Banner-News, Wednesday, June 20, 1923


Flat river claimed its first victim for the season Monday night when William 
Echerson, 19 years old, lost his life while swimming in the dam from which the 
local Citizens Light Co., secures its current, a few miles below Smyrna.

Echerson, together with a son of Leonard Bozung, had gone to the swimming place 
to cool off and get relief from the excessive heat.  It is said that he had 
eaten a hearty supper and that shortly after he had entered the water he 
disappeared from sight and sank.  The body was recovered as quickly as a drag 
could be made and he was hooked up and brought to shore, where Mr. Penton, of 
Smyrna, who had been summoned, pronounced him dead.

Echerson lived with his mother and grandfather, a man name Murphy, on the Jacob 
Rutziger farm, a short distance west of Keene church.

Funeral services are being held this afternoon at 1 o’clock from the house and 
at 2 o’clock from the Keene church.


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