HARRY EELLS

A SAD AFFAIR IN PRESTON

A Little Son of D. R. Eells Found floating Dead in a Creek.

   On Friday afternoon between five and six o'clock, the little four-year old son of D. R. Eells, who resides in Preston at the little settlement known as "Georgetown," on the road to the county house, was found floating in a pool of water under the bridge that spans the creek at that point.  He was dead when discovered and taken from the water by an elder sister.

   Mr. Eells is a painter by trade, who has been working in Guilford during the summer, and was away at his work at the time.  The last seen of the boy alive was about five o'clock, when he and his sister were playing in the highway near the bridge.  Later the sister discovered that he was missing, and that a sprinkling pot or pail that he had with him was on the abutment of the bridge.  Going to the place she saw her brother partly submerged in the water under the bridge.  She alarmed an elder sister, who drew the body, for life was extinct, from the pool.  Owing to the drought there is not much water in the creek except at this place, which is quite a deep hole that had been washed out by floods.

   There was a bruise on the boy's forehead, and it is supposed that he had attempted to get some water from the creek and stood on a loose flat stone that was most convenient for that purpose, which tipped and threw him into the creek.  In the fall he must have struck his head on stones that lined the edge of the pool, which so stunned that he was unable to help himself or make an out cry and was drowned.

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DIED

   EELLS-In Preston, July 19, 1895, Harry Delos, only son of Delos R. and Sarah C. Eells, aged 3 years, 8 months and 17 days.