Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — BABE DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

BABE DROWNED.

There were heavy hearts at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Moreland last Sunday, their infant daughter Myrtle, aged one year and four months, having met with a fatal accident. She had wandered out on the back porch of their resieence and fell into a tub of water, and before discovered life was extinct. It is thought she could not have been in the water more than five minutes, but although two doctors worked over her for two hours their efforts were unavailing. Funeral was held at the Christian church Monday afternoon, Elder J. L. Brady, assisted by Elder N. H. Shepherd conducting the services. We understand that the child had been insured some two weeks before with a Delphi insurance agent for a small sum.