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
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