Wolfe County News - Jan. 2, 1963 WOLFE COUNTY MAN IS DROWNED IN OHIO SLUDGE PIT Funeral services were conducted at the Porter and Son Funeral Home, Campton, Saturday, Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. for William Harrison Swango, 55, who was accidentally drowned when he slipped into a sludge pit while working at Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. site on Yankee Road, Middletown, Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 26. He was a native of Wolfe County but had lived in Middletown, Ohio the last nine years. According to the account of the story which appeared in an Ohio paper, he had gone to work on this new job only that morning of his death. He is thought to have slipped and then fell into the pit while cleaning mud off his shoes. His sister said he left home early the morning of his accident and the Union sent him out on the Texas Eastern site where he worked through the morning. It was shortly after lunch that he slipped and fell into the muddy water of the sludge pit, five hours after he had gone to work. When fellow workers found him missing after 1:30 p.m. they searched the area and found his hat on the bank of the pit. Calls were made immediately to the Monroe Fire Dept. and the Middletown Rescue Squad. Butler County sheriff's deputies and the Tri-County Ambulance Service hurried to the scene. Mr. Swango had never married but rather chose to live with his sister, Mary Jane Swango and brother, Sam Swango at 318 Vanderveer Street, Middletown, Ohio. Butler County Coroner Garrett Boone ruled the death due to accidental drowning, and said Mr. Swango apparently slipped on the bank into the sludge pit. Another workman, who was acquainted with Mr. Swango, observed that "he couldn't swim a lick." The deceased is survived by two other sisters, Mrs. Bertha Reed, Cincinnati, and Mrs. Ellen Kincaid of Stanton. The body was taken to the McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home where it lay in state from 7-9 p.m. Thursday night, Dec. 27, and brought to Campton on Friday to the Porter and Son Funeral Home. Rev.C.C. Osborne and Rev. John Dalton officiated at the funeral with special music by Methodist Church choir and burial in Swango Family Cemetery. Carole