Theodore Watters' Death
Contributed by Judy
The Evening Review, East Liverpool Monday Oct. 2, 1911 front page
BOY'S SKULL IS FRACTURED IN FALL FROM TREE
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Theodore Watters, Hunting Chestnuts With Cousin, Is Fatally Hurt
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Branch Gave Way, Precipitating Him to Ground, a Distance of About 25 Feet
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Was Son of Blind Musician and Had Been Employed at Plant in Newell
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As a result of a limb breaking beneath his weight, Theodore Watters, aged 14, a mouldrunner at the Homer Laughlin China Company's Pottery, Newell and a son of William J. Watters of Grandview Street, Pleasant Heights, was precipitated from a chestnut tree to the ground, a distance of about 25 feet, on the Gaston farm near the Gaston sub station on the Y & O railroad, at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. The lad sustained a fractured skull, from the effects if which he succumbed within 45 minutes following the accident.
Eager to secure a supply of chestnuts, young Watters and Winfield Haley, a son of A. J. Haley, of Wellsville, a cousin, started for the country early Sunday morning, On the Gaston farm, young Watters removed his shoes and ascended a bog chestnut tree, He was resting on a limb of it when it suddenly crashed to the ground, carrying the youth with it.
FATHER A BLIND MUSICIAN
Following the accident young Haley summoned assistance from the home of Homer Chamberlain, who resides on the Gaston farm. The injured lad was taken there, while Dr. J. W. Fitzsimmons, of Calcutta, was called. The boy survived but a few minutes after the arrival of the physician, In the meantime the boy's sorrowing parents had been notified of the accident and had reached the son's bedside. The father is a blind musician.
The Sturgis ambulance removed the body to the late home, where the funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. E. P. Wise, pastor of the First Christian Church, will officiate. Interment will be made in Spring Grove cemetery.
Besides the parents, two younger sisters and two brothers survive him.
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