This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whited Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5467 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 12 June 1902 Death - Miss Willie Whited, age 5, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Whited died in the Meserve tank, just outside the Cameron city limits last Thursday afternoon. The Whited family have been at work this year on the Meserve farm and lived in a pasture near the water tank, from which they have secured drinking water during the year. Last Thursday all but Willie left the premises on a jaunt and sometime before sunset, Willie told her mother that she would go to the tank and get some water to wash her doll clothes. Her mother assented, not dreaming of the consequences of the trip. The children are small, have carried about all the water on the premises this year, and they have kept house while the parents have worked in the field. They dipped up water at a shallow place in the tank but this time Willie took a large bucket and the supposition is, not being able to sink it at the usual place, she went over to a deeper place near the dam and in attempting to fill it there she fell in an! d was drowned. She had been gone nearly an hour when it was thought time to make an inquiry as to here whereabouts. Near the tank is a family tenting and when it was learned she was not there, the mother, screamed as she hastened from the house to the tank. Her sister, a young lady with her, followed and when they reached the tank they discovered the dead body of Willie floating on the surface. Securing a pole, they pulled the body to the bank and the mother, frantic with grief, gathered the limp child in her arms and for some time refused to relinquish it. The father was at Green’s lake fishing and did not return home until dark to find learn of the events. Neighbors came and dressed the body and on Friday about 2 p.m. the child was buried in the old cemetery. [very lengthy article] Death - Julia Raby, little daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A. T. Raby died at Tracy on June 4th and was buried in the Zion cemetery on the Davilla and Tracy road. [lengthy article & poem]