BUCKLEY, boy 9 years old

BUCKLEY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 8/1/2025 at 22:52:04

Buckley, boy 9 years old
(1869 - June 1, 1878)

Wednesday, June 5,1878 Maple Valley Era, Ida Grove, Iowa
Saturday evening about dark, a ten year old son of A. Buckley, who lives on Geo. Snyder’s farm, ten miles south of town, was drowned. The particulars as we learn them from Mr. Mahen, who lives close by where the sad accident happened and who helped to recover the body, are as follows;
Mr. Buckley had a yard close by a small creek running through the farm, which contained a number of hogs and as the yard was on rather low ground and it was raining very hard, it was feared that the yard might become flooded and the boy went to open it, that the hogs might escape. When near the creek, a flood of water rushed down a ravine upon the lad, carrying him into the stream in less time than it takes to tell it. It was as dark as Egypt, and no assistance could be rendered him. His frantic parents rushed down the bank of the creek, loudly calling for help, which brought our informant and Mrs. O’Meara to the scene of the disaster at once, but, owing to the darkness, they could render no assistance to the unfortunate child. Others soon arrived upon the ground and an effort was made to find the body, but it was unsuccessful until Sunday morning, when Mr. Mahen and Mr. O’Meara found it in the Soldier River, about a mile and a half below the place where the boy was drowned. On Monday the body was buried in the cemetery at this place, a large number of neighbors accompanied the stricken parents as they followed the remains to its final home.

June 6,1878 Ida County Pioneer, Ida Grove, Iowa
Drowned-a nine year old boy of Alonzo Buckley, in Hayes twp. was drowned in the little stream that flows by the house of Geo. Snyder, and through the hog lot, last Saturday evening. Owing to the sever rain the creek began to rise, endangering the hogs. Two little boys aged nine and twelve ran out to let down the bars and let the hogs out, but to accomplish this they had to wade another little stream, which ran so swift that it drew he boys under, the elder one grabbing hold of a fence post was saved, but the younger one disappeared. Alarm was immediately given and the whole neighborhood turned out to search. The search was kept up all night and the next day until the body was found about a mile or two below. The burial took place at the Ida Grove Cemetery last Monday with Rev. Wm. Boardman officiating. Mr. Buckley is a new arrival in the county and is a renter upon the farm of Geo. Snyder.