Lee, Anton – Died 1910

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Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/28/2023 at 09:20:14

Source: Decorah Republican Feb 3, 1910, P2 C3

FROZEN TO DEATH IN CANADA.
Anton and Odven Lee, Sons of A. T. Lee, Get Lost in Blizzard Near Their Homestead.
From the Moose Jaw News of Jan. 21st we learn of the death of Anton and Odven Lee, two boys who are claimed to have arrived at Weyburn, Canada, on Christmas day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lee from Decorah. Two days later the family reached their homestead and on New Year’s day, about four o’clock, the boys took a horse and stoneboat to go 66 rods to a well for water. They did not return that night but in the morning their tracks were found near the well. The father, not knowing of the duty of Canada’s mounted police, started alone to search for them. He learned that they spent the night at a homestead nine miles distant and were directed on their way home in the morning, but all trace of them was lost until Jan. 20th, when their dead bodies were found six miles west of Forward on the Weyburn and Lethbridge line. The horse was also found, still alive but badly starved.
We have endeavored to locate the parties above referred to but so far can learn no one who knows them.