Archie G. Boyce, Jr.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - September 6, 1935
CHILD DROWNS IN EAGLE RIVER SUNDAY NIGHT. SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY WALKS IN SLEEP FROM PARENTS' CAMP BESIDE RIVER AND LOSES LIFE--PARENTS WERE ON A PLEASURE TRIP TO WESTERN SLOPE FROM HOME IN FOUNTAIN.
A very sad tragedy took place near Wolcott Sunday night when Archie G. BOYCE, Jr., six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie G. BOYCE of Fountain, Colo. was drowned in the Eagle river between the John Holland ranch and Wolcott.
Mr. and Mrs. BOYCE and their son and a young daughter, had been on a week end pleasure trip to the Western Slope, going to Palisade for peaches. They were returning home and had driven to Wolcott Sunday evening before going into camp for the night.They stopped at the Peate filling station at about 10 o'clock in the evening for oil and gas and then drove up the road, camping opposite Mr. Holland's house. They were all very tired from the day's trip, and went to sleep at once after making camp. Along about three o'clock
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - September 6, 1935
CHILD DROWNS IN EAGLE RIVER SUNDAY NIGHT. SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY WALKS IN SLEEP FROM PARENTS' CAMP BESIDE RIVER AND LOSES LIFE--PARENTS WERE ON A PLEASURE TRIP TO WESTERN SLOPE FROM HOME IN FOUNTAIN.
A very sad tragedy took place near Wolcott Sunday night when Archie G. BOYCE, Jr., six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie G. BOYCE of Fountain, Colo. was drowned in the Eagle river between the John Holland ranch and Wolcott.
Mr. and Mrs. BOYCE and their son and a young daughter, had been on a week end pleasure trip to the Western Slope, going to Palisade for peaches. They were returning home and had driven to Wolcott Sunday evening before going into camp for the night.They stopped at the Peate filling station at about 10 o'clock in the evening for oil and gas and then drove up the road, camping opposite Mr. Holland's house. They were all very tired from the day's trip, and went to sleep at once after making camp. Along about three o'clock in the morning Mr. BOYCE awoke and looked at the time when his wife missed the baby boy. He and his wife got out of bed and started to search for him. They procured a lantern of John HOLLAND and the latter joined in the search. When he was not found help from the neighborhood joined in the search. It was daylight before the body was found some distance below the camp nearly submerged in the water of the river. Fortunately, water in the river is now at low stage and the little body was not washed far. While life was apparently extinct, the body was brought quickly to Eagle and Dr. BELDEN applied every means known to revive life, but it was too late.
The body was turned over to Mortician Andre of Eagle and cared for, and that evening an undertaker from Colorado Springs arrived and took the child there for burial, the parents having in the meantime returned home to prepare the remainder of the family for the shock of the sad news.
Mr. BOYCE has been employed by the municipal light company in Colorado Springs for a number of years, although their home is in Fountain. He and Mrs. BOYCE are the parents of seven children of which Archie was the youngest.
It is presumed that the baby was walking in his sleep and found a hole in the fence which was between the camp and the river, and wandered through it. His foot prints were later found indicating that he had returned from the river bank once to the fence, but not finding the opening through which he had first crawled, walked again to the river bank and evidently stumbled in while his parents slept, ignorant of the tragedy that was being enacted.
