Solomon Hilsabeck 1852-1903

HILSABECK

Posted By: C. Tucker (email)
Date: 11/2/2010 at 11:24:04

Evening Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [Wednesday 7-15-1903] p. 7

HILSABECK FOUND

Remains of Drowned Man Discovered In the River One Mile North of Stanley’s Mill at 6 O’clock Tuesday Evening

Decomposition Rendered Identification Almost Impossible

The body of Solomon Hilsabeck, the farmer living five miles northwest of Albion, who was drowned Sunday afternoon, was discovered Tuesday evening by “Tod” Bridgeman, who, after an hour’s work, recovered it. A boy named Bivens, it seems, had seen what he thought was a man’s body, in the forenoon, and told Bridgeman. Decomposition has set in to such an extent that it was almost an impossibility to recognize the body, excepting by a scar. The body had lodged against a pile of driftwood, and had been carried below the wire netting before it was strung across the river Monday at Indian Bridge. The remains were buried at the Bethel Grove cemetery at midnight.