Obituary - Theodore Watters
East Liverpool Tribune
SON OF BLIND MUSICIAN MEETS DEATH IN THIRTY
FOOT PLUNGE FROM TREE
Theodore Watters, Thirteen Year-Old Lad Fatally Injured
DEAD LIMB BREAKS
Accident Occurred On Farm Near the Gaston Sub-Station
SEEKING CHESTNUTS
Skull Is Fractured and Youngster Lives But Half an Hour.
Falling a distance of thirty feet, from out of a chestnut tree on the Gaston dairy farm, near Gaston sub-station on the Y. & O., at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning (October 1, 1911), Theodore Watters, aged 13 years, of Pleasant Heights, son of a well known blind musician, this city, sustained injuries which resulted in his death a half hour after being removed to the house of Homer Chamberlin, who resides near where the accident occurred.
Immediately following the accident the parents, J. W. Watters and his wife, were summoned and arrived in time to be at the bedside of their son when death occurred.
The death is a sad one, taking from a blind father and a loving mother, a son in whom fond hopes had long been cherished.
The Watters lad, in company with Winfield Haley, son of Mailcarrier A. J. Haley of Wellsville, a boy of about the same age, had gone out early yesterday morning in search of chestnuts. Locating a large tree on the Gaston dairy farm, Watters removed his shoes in order to enable him to climb the tree more easily.
Having climbed a distance of about thirty feet from the ground, he crawled out on a dead limb of the tree. Much to the horror of the Haley lad, he saw the rotten limb with its human burden suddenly snap and drop to the ground.
Seeing that the Watters boy did not move, Haley ran for the nearest farmhouse, the home of Homer Chamberlain. The injured lad was removed to that place and the parents and a physician summoned. Dr. J. W. Fitzsimmons of Calcutta, arrived and upon examination found that Watters had suffered concussion of the brain. Death came at 12 o'clock.
The body was removed to the Watters home in Pleasant Heights, in the Sturgis ambulance later in the day.
The lad was an only son, and his sudden death brings sadness to his wide circle of young school friends and associates, and casts a shadow of gloom over a home where his sunny disposition has ever been its brightest ray of sunlight.
Funeral announcement will be made later.
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