Submitted by Linda Braden Gray
South Bend Tribune, August 18, 1914
MAN DROWNS WHEN ROW BOAT UPSETS
G. W. ADELSPERGER VICTIM OF BARREN LAKE ACCIDENT.
Attempts to Swim Ashore, But Sinks, Exhausted - Body Recoverred
by Niles
Police.
George W. Adelsperger, 80 East Colfax, was
drowned this morning at 5
o'clock at Barren lake when the boat in which he and E. R.
Davies, 513 Corby
street, were fishing, upset.
Mr. Adelsperger was standing in the back of
the boat to cast a weight
anchor and as the boat was thus heavily tipped it ran onto
a blind stake which
upset it. He and Davies started to swim to the bank,
but when Davies reached
safety and looked back for his friend, Adelsperger had sunk
from sight.
The two men had been spending a few days at
the cottage owned by Dr.
Davies on the lake.
The deceased was 70 years of age last
November, having been born Nov. 1,
1843. He has lived in South Bend since 1880, when he
came here from Tiffin,
O. He was a millwright by trade, have been employed
at the Birdsell
Manufacturing company. He is a civil war veteran, and
a member of the G. A. R.,
having belonged to Auten post No. 87.
He was married in 1868 to Josephine Kintz who
survives him. He is also
survived by 10 children as follows; Mrs. William
Brennan, Mrs. Louis
Coquillard, Mrs. Max Konzen, Charles and Miss Lucy
Adelsperger, all of South Bend,
Peter Adelsperger and Mrs. John Giede of Chicago, Miss
Lillian Adelsperger of
Kalamazoo, George Adelsperger of Kalamazoo, George
Adelsperger of Tiffin, O.,
and Mrs. Elmer Metran of Dowagiac, Mich.
The Niles police department was notified of
the accident this morning
and recovered the body in an hour after the drowning
occured. The body was
brought to South Bend at noon to-day. Funeral
announcements will be made later.
Submitted by: Kristina Kuhn Krumm
South Bend Tribune
Auguste 19, 1914
The funeral of George W.
Adelsperger,