Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stahl, Benjamin June 1891
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday June 5, 1891

                               DROWNED

About 11 o'clock last Tuesday, while John Bippley and sons, Geo. and Frank, 
together with Benjamin Stahl, were washing sheep in a pond about a mile and a 
half east of town, Stahl was drowned. It seems that Stahl and the two boys were 
in the water washing sheep, and the first thing that was noticed pertaining, to 
the drowning of Stahl was his hat floating on the water. One of the boys called 
to his father, who immediately seized a fence board and shoved it out to the 
drowning man, but he failed to catch hold of it and as far as can be 
ascertained, he  never came up after going down the first time. Everything was 
done to rescue the man and at last a rake was procured from a neighboring farm 
house with which they succeeded in pulling him out.

Word reached Lake Odessa about one o'clock that a man had been pulled out of the 
pond near Mooney's place and immediately Drs.Russ and Horner accompanied by our 
reporter started for the man's ouse and reached there just as he was being 
carried into the yard. Two hours of hard work were spent in trying to bring the 
man back to life, but to no avail.

Stahl would have been 33 years of age the 6th of June and was as fine a built 
man as one sees. He leaves a wife and Four children to mourn his loss, and the 
whole community seems to be shocked over the affair. No blame can be laid to 
anyone as everything was done to save him and it looks as though he may have met 
is death in another way than drowning, as it seems as if he would certainly  
have come to the surface after going down. It looks hard to see a strong, well 
man stricken down in the prime of life, and it also looks hard to think that a 
wife and four small children are left without a husband and father's care.

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