Ross Angelo Boardman (1893 - 1906)

Born 2 Oct 1893 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Died 17 Jun 1906 at age 12 in Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas

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Biography

June 1906, Ottawa Kansas"Ross Boardman, the thirteen year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Boardman, was drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming with a small party of boys at a point up the river north. The boy was able to swim but encountered a current shore. The current was very swift at the point where the boy went under, that was beyond his strength. There seems also to have been an undercurrent which drew him down. He was in the water about twenty-five minutes before the body was recovered. The two Boardman boys, together with Leon Simpson, Will Schnoke and one or two other companions had gone swimming about three o'clock. They went to a new swimming hole, which the boys have named the " Pollywog," Mathias, who is strong and a good swimmer, could hardly stand against it. The water, however, was not more than four feet deep. Every effort that the boys could think of was applied to resuscitate drowned boy, but without producing any signs of life. A short time afterward Will Angelo reached the spot in an automobile, having received the word which the Simpson boy brought to town."

"After a little further effort toward bringing the boy to life, the body was taken with all speed to the Boardman home, where for an hour a number of physicians made an ineffectual effort at resuscitation. ... The shock of his sudden death has affected the neighborhood in which he lived as a bereavement personal to all who knew the boy, who had been won by his gentleness and manliness. Mr. Boardman was in Colorado on business but had started home yesterday. The sad news reached him as he left the Santa Fe main line train at Newton, early this morning, after acquaintances had tried by many messages to locate him in Colorado. He arrived at 9 o'clock this morning."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Unattributed and unsourced. Posted on Logan County (Colorado) Pioneer Index, [www-dot-cogenweb-dot-com/Logan/biographies]. The referring page still exists, but gives a 404 error on the biographies page - 29Jan2021

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMTK-6HC : accessed 28 April 2022), Ross B*ard in household of John R B*Ard, Ottawa Township Ottawa city Ward 2, Franklin, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 86, sheet , family , NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm .
• Kansas State Historical Society. "Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925", (Topeka, Kansas; 1905). Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1905_54; LIne 14; (Ancestry.com Operastions, Inc. 2009, Provo, UT, USA). Shows John Boardman, 38, Julia Boardman, 34, Edwin Boardman, 14 and Ross Boardman, 11 in Ottawa, KS.