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New Jersey Obituaries - 1900 - William Marsden
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A Boy Drowned at Lufburrow’s Mill
William Marsden of New York, a member of the fresh air colony at Eunice home at Chapel Hill, was drowned
last Saturday in the mill pond near that place owned by Oscar Hesse of Red Bank and known as Lufburrow’s
mill.
The boy was about ten years old. He and a number of companions ran away from the home Saturday afternoon
and went bathing in the mill pond. Three of the boys, including young Marsden, left their companions at
the lower end of the pond and went up near the dam. None of them could swim. The boys had been in the
pond but a short time when John Scott, who looks after the pond for Mr. Hesse, discovered them. The boys
were told to leave the pond and put on their clothes. When all who came out had dressed one clothing
outfit was left over. This was found to belong to Marsden and not until then did his companions have
even a suspicion that he had been drowned.
People from Eunice home dragged the pond for the body until late Saturday night but it could not be
found. Undertaker R. T. Smith of Red Bank was notified and he went to the pond Sunday morning. The
water was let off until a person could wade in any part of the pond. Edward Alley, who built the
milldam, was among the spectators at the pond Sunday morning. He knew of a deep hole near the dam
and he thought that the body would probably be found there. He waded out to the dam and found the
body at the place he had indicated. The body was taken in charge of by Mr. Smith. Coroner Tetley
gave a burial permit and on Monday the body was taken to New York.
Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, July 11, 1900
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