21-Months-Old Tot Drowns In Neighboring Fish-Pond -
Carrying a pretty towseled-haired baby into his humble home late Thursday afternoon, Sanford W. Wisehart [Wiseheart] Sr., 922 West Eighth street, stunned, looked up for the moment, and said, "I guess it's God's will."
Dr. Frank T. Tyler, County Coroner, who had brought Mary Katherine Wisehart [Wiseheart] into the world twenty-one months ago, had just pronounced her dead.
The little tot, fond of playing in water, was found dead at the bottom of an eighteen-inch fish-pond in a neighbor's yard a short time before.
After receiving a bath at the hands of its mother, the baby toddled around in the back yard. Ten minutes later it was missed, and a frantic search was made.
Mary Lorena Wisehart [Mildred Lorena Wiseheart], 15, a sister hastened to the back yard of the home of W. Guy Smith, 923 West Seventh street, whose property adjoins that of the Wisehart [Wiseheart] home in the rear. Looking into the pond, she saw the lifeless body of the child. Removing the little form from the water, Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena] rushed to her home, and neighbors summoned the police department. Chief of Police Edward H. Meyer lost no time in calling the inhalator squad of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. Dr. Tyler happened to be in the police station at the time.
Members of the squad, including Capt. Louis Harbeson, Capt. Jacob Harmeling, Walter Wattam and Ralph Routh, under the direction of Fire Chief John Feiock, worked over the little form for a half-hour, using a tank of oxygen. Their efforts, however, proved in vain, and Dr. Tyler pronounced the baby dead. With bared heads, the firemen, who had tenderly applied the prone pressure method, Chief Meyer and other men stepped back with tear-dimmed eyes as the grief-stricken mother walked into the house and the shocked father picked up the little victim and followed her.
"We don't know why these things have to happen," the father said, "but I guess it's God's will."
Besides the parents and Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena], another sister, Naomi Wisehart [Wiseheart], and two brothers, Sanford Wisehart [Wiseheart] Jr., and Frank Wisehart [Wiseheart], survive.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the residence with burial in Graceland Memorial Park.
The drowning was the second to have taken place here in two days, the other being that of Ira Wilt, 49, retired Louisville post office employee residing at 205 West Market street, this city, who was drowned in the Ohio river Wednesday afternoon.
- New Albany Tribune, Friday, 10 July 1936, page 1, column 2.
Carrying a pretty towseled-haired baby into his humble home late Thursday afternoon, Sanford W. Wisehart [Wiseheart] Sr., 922 West Eighth street, stunned, looked up for the moment, and said, "I guess it's God's will."
Dr. Frank T. Tyler, County Coroner, who had brought Mary Katherine Wisehart [Wiseheart] into the world twenty-one months ago, had just pronounced her dead.
The little tot, fond of playing in water, was found dead at the bottom of an eighteen-inch fish-pond in a neighbor's yard a short time before.
After receiving a bath at the hands of its mother, the baby toddled around in the back yard. Ten minutes later it was missed, and a frantic search was made.
Mary Lorena Wisehart [Mildred Lorena Wiseheart], 15, a sister hastened to the back yard of the home of W. Guy Smith, 923 West Seventh street, whose property adjoins that of the Wisehart [Wiseheart] home in the rear. Looking into the pond, she saw the lifeless body of the child. Removing the little form from the water, Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena] rushed to her home, and neighbors summoned the police department. Chief of Police Edward H. Meyer lost no time in calling the inhalator squad of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. Dr. Tyler happened to be in the police station at the time.
Members of the squad, including Capt. Louis Harbeson, Capt. Jacob Harmeling, Walter Wattam and Ralph Routh, under the direction of Fire Chief John Feiock, worked over the little form for a half-hour, using a tank of oxygen. Their efforts, however, proved in vain, and Dr. Tyler pronounced the baby dead. With bared heads, the firemen, who had tenderly applied the prone pressure method, Chief Meyer and other men stepped back with tear-dimmed eyes as the grief-stricken mother walked into the house and the shocked father picked up the little victim and followed her.
"We don't know why these things have to happen," the father said, "but I guess it's God's will."
Besides the parents and Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena], another sister, Naomi Wisehart [Wiseheart], and two brothers, Sanford Wisehart [Wiseheart] Jr., and Frank Wisehart [Wiseheart], survive.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the residence with burial in Graceland Memorial Park.
The drowning was the second to have taken place here in two days, the other being that of Ira Wilt, 49, retired Louisville post office employee residing at 205 West Market street, this city, who was drowned in the Ohio river Wednesday afternoon.
- New Albany Tribune, Friday, 10 July 1936, page 1, column 2.
21-Months-Old Tot Drowns In Neighboring Fish-Pond -
Carrying a pretty towseled-haired baby into his humble home late Thursday afternoon, Sanford W. Wisehart [Wiseheart] Sr., 922 West Eighth street, stunned, looked up for the moment, and said, "I guess it's God's will."
Dr. Frank T. Tyler, County Coroner, who had brought Mary Katherine Wisehart [Wiseheart] into the world twenty-one months ago, had just pronounced her dead.
The little tot, fond of playing in water, was found dead at the bottom of an eighteen-inch fish-pond in a neighbor's yard a short time before.
After receiving a bath at the hands of its mother, the baby toddled around in the back yard. Ten minutes later it was missed, and a frantic search was made.
Mary Lorena Wisehart [Mildred Lorena Wiseheart], 15, a sister hastened to the back yard of the home of W. Guy Smith, 923 West Seventh street, whose property adjoins that of the Wisehart [Wiseheart] home in the rear. Looking into the pond, she saw the lifeless body of the child. Removing the little form from the water, Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena] rushed to her home, and neighbors summoned the police department. Chief of Police Edward H. Meyer lost no time in calling the inhalator squad of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. Dr. Tyler happened to be in the police station at the time.
Members of the squad, including Capt. Louis Harbeson, Capt. Jacob Harmeling, Walter Wattam and Ralph Routh, under the direction of Fire Chief John Feiock, worked over the little form for a half-hour, using a tank of oxygen. Their efforts, however, proved in vain, and Dr. Tyler pronounced the baby dead. With bared heads, the firemen, who had tenderly applied the prone pressure method, Chief Meyer and other men stepped back with tear-dimmed eyes as the grief-stricken mother walked into the house and the shocked father picked up the little victim and followed her.
"We don't know why these things have to happen," the father said, "but I guess it's God's will."
Besides the parents and Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena], another sister, Naomi Wisehart [Wiseheart], and two brothers, Sanford Wisehart [Wiseheart] Jr., and Frank Wisehart [Wiseheart], survive.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the residence with burial in Graceland Memorial Park.
The drowning was the second to have taken place here in two days, the other being that of Ira Wilt, 49, retired Louisville post office employee residing at 205 West Market street, this city, who was drowned in the Ohio river Wednesday afternoon.
- New Albany Tribune, Friday, 10 July 1936, page 1, column 2.
Carrying a pretty towseled-haired baby into his humble home late Thursday afternoon, Sanford W. Wisehart [Wiseheart] Sr., 922 West Eighth street, stunned, looked up for the moment, and said, "I guess it's God's will."
Dr. Frank T. Tyler, County Coroner, who had brought Mary Katherine Wisehart [Wiseheart] into the world twenty-one months ago, had just pronounced her dead.
The little tot, fond of playing in water, was found dead at the bottom of an eighteen-inch fish-pond in a neighbor's yard a short time before.
After receiving a bath at the hands of its mother, the baby toddled around in the back yard. Ten minutes later it was missed, and a frantic search was made.
Mary Lorena Wisehart [Mildred Lorena Wiseheart], 15, a sister hastened to the back yard of the home of W. Guy Smith, 923 West Seventh street, whose property adjoins that of the Wisehart [Wiseheart] home in the rear. Looking into the pond, she saw the lifeless body of the child. Removing the little form from the water, Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena] rushed to her home, and neighbors summoned the police department. Chief of Police Edward H. Meyer lost no time in calling the inhalator squad of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. Dr. Tyler happened to be in the police station at the time.
Members of the squad, including Capt. Louis Harbeson, Capt. Jacob Harmeling, Walter Wattam and Ralph Routh, under the direction of Fire Chief John Feiock, worked over the little form for a half-hour, using a tank of oxygen. Their efforts, however, proved in vain, and Dr. Tyler pronounced the baby dead. With bared heads, the firemen, who had tenderly applied the prone pressure method, Chief Meyer and other men stepped back with tear-dimmed eyes as the grief-stricken mother walked into the house and the shocked father picked up the little victim and followed her.
"We don't know why these things have to happen," the father said, "but I guess it's God's will."
Besides the parents and Mary Lorena [Mildred Lorena], another sister, Naomi Wisehart [Wiseheart], and two brothers, Sanford Wisehart [Wiseheart] Jr., and Frank Wisehart [Wiseheart], survive.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the residence with burial in Graceland Memorial Park.
The drowning was the second to have taken place here in two days, the other being that of Ira Wilt, 49, retired Louisville post office employee residing at 205 West Market street, this city, who was drowned in the Ohio river Wednesday afternoon.
- New Albany Tribune, Friday, 10 July 1936, page 1, column 2.
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