Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJesse Eighmy 
10
10Birthabt 1877, Wisconsin10
Death7 Aug 1900, Chetek, Wisconsin23
FatherObediah W. Eighmy (~1837-1933)
MotherMary Helen (~1849-1935)
Obituary
Jessie Eighmey Drowned.
About ten o’clock Tuesday evening Aug 7, this city was thrown into consternation by cries for help and that J.C. Eighmy was drowning.
Help was soon at hand but the fatal work was done, almost done before the danger could be realized by even the parties present. Work for the recovery of the body was inaugurated at once, but forty minutes had elapsed before the grapeling irons caught the body. Doctor’s Devine, Culver, Jas, Malcolm, and W. G. Malcolm, labored faithfully a long time to restore life, but to no avail.
As we understand the situation, Jessie had gone with Dr. Culver, Dr. Devine Alvah Readon and Ed. Riley to the eddy below the dam to bathe.
By the Action of the current, a narrow sand bar projects into the eddy over this a light current was flowing with quit(e) deep water at each side; The water on the bar being about waist deep. Reardon and Culver, as has been customary among bathers, swam to the bar and was followed by Jessie. They sported about the bar for some time the pleasure being in keeping the bar from which the current would gradually sweep them. Devine and Riley had gone to shore and Reardon had also been to shore but returned and aided Culver and Jessie to find the bar a couple of times.
Up to this time no one had thought of danger, being occupied in the pleasures of the bath. Having again lost the bar and becoming somewhat tired, perhaps bewildered, Reardon was assisting Culver to again find a better position on the bar, when Jessie, who had started for shore, perhaps forty feet distance, gave the alarm that he was going down. Before the others could reach him he disappeared. Dr. Culver was much exhausted but was got to shore safely. Jessie had been counted a good swimmer, but this season had been heard to say that he was very short of breath when attempting to swim any distance, and this trouble is now thought to have had much to do with his death, possibly all.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon and were conducted by Co. A. 10 Sep. Bat. W.N.G. assisted by Lakeside Camp No. 2347, M.W.A.; Chetek Lodge No. 48, K.O.T.M. of which orders he was a member, the G.A.R. Post, the Royal Neighbors and the Ladies of the Maccabees. Military honors were. . .23
About ten o’clock Tuesday evening Aug 7, this city was thrown into consternation by cries for help and that J.C. Eighmy was drowning.
Help was soon at hand but the fatal work was done, almost done before the danger could be realized by even the parties present. Work for the recovery of the body was inaugurated at once, but forty minutes had elapsed before the grapeling irons caught the body. Doctor’s Devine, Culver, Jas, Malcolm, and W. G. Malcolm, labored faithfully a long time to restore life, but to no avail.
As we understand the situation, Jessie had gone with Dr. Culver, Dr. Devine Alvah Readon and Ed. Riley to the eddy below the dam to bathe.
By the Action of the current, a narrow sand bar projects into the eddy over this a light current was flowing with quit(e) deep water at each side; The water on the bar being about waist deep. Reardon and Culver, as has been customary among bathers, swam to the bar and was followed by Jessie. They sported about the bar for some time the pleasure being in keeping the bar from which the current would gradually sweep them. Devine and Riley had gone to shore and Reardon had also been to shore but returned and aided Culver and Jessie to find the bar a couple of times.
Up to this time no one had thought of danger, being occupied in the pleasures of the bath. Having again lost the bar and becoming somewhat tired, perhaps bewildered, Reardon was assisting Culver to again find a better position on the bar, when Jessie, who had started for shore, perhaps forty feet distance, gave the alarm that he was going down. Before the others could reach him he disappeared. Dr. Culver was much exhausted but was got to shore safely. Jessie had been counted a good swimmer, but this season had been heard to say that he was very short of breath when attempting to swim any distance, and this trouble is now thought to have had much to do with his death, possibly all.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon and were conducted by Co. A. 10 Sep. Bat. W.N.G. assisted by Lakeside Camp No. 2347, M.W.A.; Chetek Lodge No. 48, K.O.T.M. of which orders he was a member, the G.A.R. Post, the Royal Neighbors and the Ladies of the Maccabees. Military honors were. . .23