DeGroot, Boy c1901 - 1908

DEGROOT

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/9/2019 at 10:18:08

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 20, 1908, LP, C3

Boy Drowned.
Yesterday morning the children of Aug. DeGroote, who lives on the Dr. Connolly farm northwest of Cresco, started for school, and one of them, a seven year old boy, went through the fields, the others going around by the road. The boy not arriving at school, the teacher instituted a search and the boy was found drowned in one of the holes in a slough, having broken through the ice over the hole. Dr. Plummer was called but the boy was beyond resuscitation.