Hillsborough Recorder

Sept. 18, 1861

Page 3

A VERY SAD CASUALTY—On Friday afternoon last, Gaston, the eldest child of Col. Gaston Meares of the Army, aged 9 years, fell from a boat in which he was playing with other boys, into the river at the foot of Dock street, Wilmington, and was drowned, not being seen until his body was recovered three hours afterwards.  He was a grandson of Dr. A. J. DeRosser.

It is a very sad calamity, exciting the deepest sympathy with the bereaved family of many here as well as at Wilmington.

 

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]