Herman Scheepers

SCHEEPERS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/26/2016 at 08:23:18

5 March 1915 - The Lowden News

Sunday noon Herman, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scheepers, living four miles southeast of town, met with an accident that cost the little fellow's life.

Herman together with an older brother and one of the neighbor boys played "automobile" with an old buggy truck taking out the tongue and fastening a seat upon the trucks with ropes tied onto the front axle. The lads would push the buggy to the top of a long hill near the Scheepers home, mount and let it run down the hill, using the ropes as guide. These trips had been made many times by the boys even on steeper grades without accident, but the last trip proved to be the ill fated one. As they neared the bottom the buggy upset. When the two older boys picked themselves up they noticed the younger one did not move, so they tried to help him but found he was unconscious. The father was summoned and carried the boy to the house and immediately called a doctor. Everything possible was done to relieve his suffering, until Wednesday when an operation was decided upon. Two specialists were called out from Davenport and upon examination it was found that his scull was crushed at the base of the brain and nothing could be done to save his life. On Thursday noon he passed away. Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday at 1 p.m. and the body will be laid to rest in the Inland cemetery.