Last Thursday morning David Yates, of Red Bank, died very suddenly.
He was one of the few survivors of Co. E, 10th Regt. P.R.C. Thus the
old veterans of ’61 are dropping out. Soon there will be none left to
grieve the hearts if of the say at home rangers or the aprionstring
<sic> guards by getting pensions.
– Frederick G. Simpson, a young man of sterling habits and character, who lives at Van Buren, midway between here and Redbank, and who had passed his twenty-first birthday last Tuesday, had helped dig the grave for Mr. Yates at Watersonville cemetery on Friday and had gone home to supper, after which he took his skates and started down the ice intending to go to Mr. Yates’ wake.
It was just about dark and there was an air hole in the ice about a quarter mile below his home, and as he did not put in an appearance at the wake nor return home at night, the neighborhood was aroused and search made for him. His lifeless body was found a few feet below the lower end of the air hole with only one skate on. One of his skates was found near the upper end of the hole. The hole was about 20 or 25 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide. His untimely death has cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood.
He was buried at Brady’s Bend cemetery Monday, according to the rites of the Jr. O.U.A.M., of which he was a member.
(Philipston, Brady Township, Correspondence)
– Frederick G. Simpson, a young man of sterling habits and character, who lives at Van Buren, midway between here and Redbank, and who had passed his twenty-first birthday last Tuesday, had helped dig the grave for Mr. Yates at Watersonville cemetery on Friday and had gone home to supper, after which he took his skates and started down the ice intending to go to Mr. Yates’ wake.
It was just about dark and there was an air hole in the ice about a quarter mile below his home, and as he did not put in an appearance at the wake nor return home at night, the neighborhood was aroused and search made for him. His lifeless body was found a few feet below the lower end of the air hole with only one skate on. One of his skates was found near the upper end of the hole. The hole was about 20 or 25 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide. His untimely death has cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood.
He was buried at Brady’s Bend cemetery Monday, according to the rites of the Jr. O.U.A.M., of which he was a member.
(Philipston, Brady Township, Correspondence)
~ Clarion Democrat, 07-Feb-1895
You can visit the memorial page for Frederick G. Simpson.
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