Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Eugene/Earnest 1899
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Belding Banner, 6 Jul 1899

Boy Drowned.

Earnest Holmes While in Bathing July 4 Taken with Cramp and Drowns Before
Assistance Can Reach Him.

Eugene Holmes, son of Willard Holmes, aged 13 years, was drowned Tuesday morning
in the river near the saw mill.  He and another boy, Daniel Preston, went to
have a swim about seven o’clock in the morning and after plunging in they
attempted to swim across the river, the Holmes boy being ahead.  Young Preston
noticed that he was struggling and soon commenced sinking and immediately he
swam to his assistance, catching his hand but was pulled under himself and was
obliged to release his hold.  The unfortunate lad soon disappeared from view and
the waters enveloped him in death.  The alarm was given as soon as possible and
a crowd of people assembled to render assistance but it was nearly an hour
before his father and one of the neighbors who had procured a boat found the
body in several feet of water some distance below where it went down.  Although
Dr. Ferguson and others attempted to resuscitate him it was of no avail as the
doctor pronounced life extinct on his first examination.

It is said that the boy was a good swimmer and it is thought he must have been
seized with a cramp.  The parents and relatives are heart stricken over the sad
affair.  The occurrence made a very unhappy Fourth of July to them.

[Transcriber’s note:  The first names are typed as printed in the obituary.]


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