Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/BrownObits/10031 Surname: Stoltzenberg, Meyerding ------------------------- From the New Ulm Review of 30 APR 1886 DROWNED -- A sad case of accidental drowning occurred at Redstone last Friday afternoon. Mr. Albert Stoltzenberg, aged twenty years, was out in the Minnesota river in a boat, having a second boat attached to the one he occupied. The boat he was in being in a leaky condition he attempted to jump into the other boat and in so doing lost his balance and fell into the river, at once sinking to the bottom. Mr. Stoltzenberg was a harness maker by trade and until a few days previous to his drowning had worked at St. Peter. His parents reside at Redstone and he was spending a short vacation at home previous to going to work in this city. Mr. F. Meyerding, who knew Stoltzenberg well, says he was a good swimmer and that he must have been seized with cramps when he struck the water, else he would certainly have reached the shore, but a few feet distant. The body was recovered Sunday morning at the mouth of the Big Cottonwood river. Deceased was a most exemplary young man and his sudden death is indeed a sad blow to his parents.