Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moore, Robert Norman February 26, 1944
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Ionia County News - Thurs. March 2, 1944

FIND BODY OF 3-YEAR OLD IN MUDDY CREEK
Second Fatality In Family During Past Year

The boy of Robert Norman Moore, 3 1/2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sprague 
Moore, Easton township, who drowned in Bellamy creek at 4:00 o'clock Saturday 
afternoon was found early Sunday when search for it, called off Saturday 
because of darkness was resumed.
 and fell into the rushing creek. The body had disappeared in the time four play
The body was discovered by Deputy Loyal Hodson over a mile downstream and 
several hundred yards north of M-21. It was caught on a tree stump in the creek.

It was taken to the Myers funeral home, Ionia, where arrangements were made for 
funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. Services were held in the funeral establishment with 
burial in the Easton cemetery.

The child drowned when it was playing around a cement bridge abutment near its  
home two miles west of town and fell into the rushing creek. The body had 
disappeared in the time four playmates, including several brothers, rushed to 
inform the mother, Mrs. Beulah Moore.

This is the second fatality in the family during the past year. A brother, 
Everett, 11 years-old, was strangled to death in December 1942.

There are six other children in the family, four boys and two girls ranging in 
age from one to fourteen. 


Additional Comments:
Easton Cemetery #437

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