FOLLET, Edward R. c1890-1899

FOLLET

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 10/8/2020 at 07:43:34

Thursday morning Edward R. Follet, the 9-year-old son of the postmaster at Dewar, Blackhawk Co., was smothered to death in a corn bin of a grain elevator. He had been about the elevator and had climbed into the corn bin which was quite full of corn. The man in charge of the elevator, unconscious of the boy's perilous position, darted to draw off the corn from the bin. The little fellow was drawn down in among the corn and when found had ceased to breathe.

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 17, 1899 P 8 C 1, 2