Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....VanAnem, Agnes 1917
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The Ionia Daily Standard, Friday, August 3, 1917
Agnes VanAnem, 12-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd VanAnem of near Lyons, 
was drowned about sunset on Thursday evening in the Commonwealth dam pond, 
nearly opposite the power house where she was in bathing in company with a 
number of other children.  Maxine Hendershot, 9-year-od child of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry Hendershot of Lyons, was rescued after going down twice, by H. B. 
Horner, electrician.  The VanAnem child did not come to the surface at all.  
Her body was recovered about 25 minutes later by the efforts of neighbors.

The accident occurred between 6:00 and 7:00 o’clock.  Agnes and Maxine were 
together close to the gravel pit on the west side above the dam.  Little Olle 
Benedict, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Benedict, was near them and there were 
a number of boys bathing at a considerable distance.  The two little girls 
waded out some distance and stumbled into the hole left by the old gravel pit, 
the entire bottom being gravelly at this place.  Mr. Horner, seeing the 
children disappear under water, ran a distance of about forty rods to the 
place where they had gone in, and then made his rescue of Maxine Hendershot.  
The body of Agnes was recovered later.

Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd VanAnem are living on the farm of Louis Faxon, about two 
houses from the corner of the road close to the dam.  They came there last 
fall from Orange township.  They have six children, one girl and two boys 
being older than the drowned child.  Agnes is said to have been an unusually 
active and helpful child, doing work on the farm which would ordinarily be 
considered beyond the years and strength of a girl of her age. 


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