Robert William Helm (1936)

HELM

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 12/29/2007 at 14:32:26

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 8, 1936
Page 1

HELM CHILD DROWNS AFTER FALL IN WELL

Baby in Webster Township Tumbles Into 3 Feet of Water

Robert Helm, aged two and one half years, was drowned Monday when he fell into a 30 foot well while playing at the farm home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm in Webster township.

Mrs. Helm was at home alone with the child at the time of the tragedy. She had been working in the basement when she missed the child. Unable to find him, she screamed for help and was answered by a neighbor, John Thomas, who came running to the Helm farm.

Thomas started a search, and noticed a missing board on the well. There was no pump in it, the water being drawn by a rope and bucket. Thomas lowered himself into the well by the rope and discovered the child's body in about 3 feet of water in the bottom. He had evidently stopped on a loose board on the well platform and plunged to his death.

Funeral services for the child were held from the Oak Grove church, Wednesday. Burial was made in the Wight cemetery.
________________________

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 15, 1936
Page 2

Mortuary

Robert William Helm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm was born April 27, 1934, and departed this life on October 5, 1936, at the young age of 2 years, 6 months and 8 days.

Robert leaves to mourn his untimely departure his parents, one brother, Richard Eugene, aged 8 months; his grandmother, Mrs. Walker G. Huffman, six aunts, Helen and Wanda Huffman, Mrs. Jennie Schneider, Miss Minnie Huffman, Mrs. Dave Barnes and Mrs. Emma Newton, four uncles, Ronald McCaslen and Elmer, M. T. and W. B. Helm, besides a host of relatives and friends.

Gravesite
 

Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen