This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ingersoll Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5901 Message Board Post: ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 1942 Services were held Sunday at Houghton for seven-year-old Robert G. INGERSOLL, son of Postmaster and Mrs. Royal INGERSOLL, whose body was recovered from the Genesee River Thursday night. Drowned while playing on the ice of the river during the school noon hour Wednesday, volunteers maintained an intensive search for the body for over 32 hours. Services were held at the home of his parents at two o'clock and at the Houghton Church at 2:30, Rev. BLACK officiating. Interment was made in the Houghton Cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]