Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2026 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== USGenNet Data Repository Notice: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ============================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ============================================================================= Grand River Times, Grand Haven, MI Wednesday, August 20, 1851 Two small boys named HENRY GRANT and JOSEPH FRENCH, residents of this village, were missing on Friday evening last. Some believed them to be drowned, others thought them to be in the woods. A very thorough search was made on Saturday and Sunday, in dragging the River and scouring the woods. - The only hopes now entertained of their being alive, is that they might have been picked up by and carried to the other side of the Lake , by some vessel outward bound. The parents are frantic, and there is not much of consolation for them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grand River Times, Grand Haven, MI Wednesday, 27 August, 1851 County of Ottawa, ss: - An Inquisition taken at the town of Ottawa, in said County, on the 23d day of August, A.D. 1851, by GEORGE PARKS, one of the Justices of the Peace, in said County, upon the view of the bodies of HENRY GRANTS and JOSEPH FRENCH, JR., there lying dead, by the oaths of the Jurors whose names are hereto sub- scribed, who being sworn to inquire in behalf of the people of this State, when and in what manner, and by what means, the said HENRY GRANTS and JOSEPH FRENCH, JR., came to their death. Upon their oaths do say, that RUDOLPH HENRY GRANTS and JOSEPH FRENCH, JR., aged ten years, came to their death by falling from the logs, enclosed in "Throop's Boom," into the bayou, of Grand River, and were there drowned. In testimony whereof, the said Justice of the Peace, and Jurors of this Inquest, have set their hands the day and year aforesaid. GEORGE PARKS, Justice of the Peace Henry Pennoyer Harry Eaton James Barns Henry Griffin Marcus Lathrop Thos. D. Gilbert Jurors ===============================================================================