Inc. 1967
Playing about on a float in the river,it is supposed,Lewis Layton,the sx-year-old son of Mr.and Mrs. Edward Layton,of Belle Vernon,lost his balance and falling into the river,was drowned Wednesday,July 26,1911.No one saw the accident,which is thought to have happened about 10:15 o'clock. The boy left home about 10 o'clock,his mother thinking he was going out as usual to play with some other boys near the house. Being busy she took no particular notice of him for the time being,but when she went to call him for dinner,he was not to be found. A search was instituted but it was not thought that he had gone to the river. Not until some hours had passed was it learned that he had been seen going in that direction. The work of dragging the river near an old float just above the Belle Vernon bridge was started and the little boy's body was found. His mother was hysterical and the discovery of his body in the river added to her grief. Mr. Layton,who is a glass worker,is employed at Point Marion and was away. The boy was the only child of the Laytons and a popular little fellow.
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