Saint Clair County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sears, Harriet March 16, 1922
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Port Huron Times Harold March 20, 1922
Aged Woman, Caught In Trap, Dies of exhaustion After Long Struggle, Few Feet 
From Safety   
( Special  To The Times Herald)  
Algonac,Mich.,  March 20-- The funeral services for   Mrs. Harriet Sears 72, 
pioneer 
resident of the Flats section, who met a tragic death Thursday when she became 
mired in 
shallow water and sank to her waist in the mud of the river bottom, was held 
today from 
Gilbert's undertaking rooms.  Mrs. Sears, who had been accustomed to hunting 
and trapping 
since a child, went out in a duck boat last Thursday to trap muskrats and mink. 
Her right 
hand became accidentally caught in one of the large steel traps, and she at 
once headed 
her small craft for shore. With the steel trap gripping the bones and flesh of 
her arm the 
aged woman left the duck boat, and made a vain effort to reach shore. She 
floundered in 
the soft mud of the river bottom and sank to her waist. Although the water at 
the point 
where her body was found is but a foot or so deep, she became exhausted in her 
efforts to 
extricate herself from the muddy bottom and perished.  When she did not return 
home for 
supper her relatives became alarmed and a search was made for her. Her body 
fast in the 
mud of the river bottom and with the steel trap still gripped about her rigid 
arm, was 
found some hours later. Mrs. Sears was but a few feet from shore when she died 
from 
exhaustion. She was the mother of Lena Brakeman who was accidentally shot and 
killed 
while hunting at the Flats in 1919. Joseph Sears, husband of the deceased died 
in April 1921. 
                                                                                
   The Sears family is among the best known of the Flats section and the female 
members are just as expert in hunting and fishing as the 
men.                                                                         
Despite her advanced age, Mrs. Sears could not be induced o stay in the house; 
she preferred to be out in all kinds of weather, hunting; fishing or 
shooting.                                                                       
       Mrs. Sears is survived by five sons. Joseph W. Moses, Dave, Theodore and 
Paul and one daughter, Mrs. Frank McDonald; also by 24 grandchildren and 4 
great grandchildren.   


Additional Comments:
 She was the daughter of Paul Lozon and Harriet Foster of 
Ontario.                         

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