Henry Earl Wilkinson

Birth: Sep. 10, 1894 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA Death: Jul. 9, 1906 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA

Buried near a group of Wilkinson infants and children.

The following is provided by Cemetery Walker #47037844:

Information for edit is from Utah death certificate.

Deseret Evening News Tuesday, July 10, 1906 Page 10

Drowned in Sand Pool

Eleven-Year-Old Henry E. Wilkinson, aged 11, son of Nicholas Wilkinson, a D & R. G. employee, got into a sand pool near the Jordan rived (sic) on South Temple street, yesterday afternoon and was drowned. The lad, in company with other boys, had been fishing, and stopped en route homeward to wade in the pool. He stepped off a ledge beyond his depth, and encumbered with his clothing, was unable to extricate himself, and sank. The other boys ran for assistance, but it was 25 minutes before it arrived, and when Wilkinson was removed from the pool by Thomas Brown of the waterworks department, he was dead.

No inquest is considered necessary.

The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday Morning, July 10, 1906 Page 12

Boy Meets Death In A Sand Pool Slips Into Deep Water and Drowns in Sight of His Companions Loses His Life While Wading In Stream Slips on a Bank and Sinks Out of Sight at Once

Little Harry Earl Wilkinson, the 11-year-old son of Nicholas Wilkinson, is dead at his home, 16 South Sixth West street. He met death by drowning about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon in a sand pool a few yards east of the roundhouse.

The lad,accompanied by Arthur Richards and Alban Nelson, boys about the same age, went fishing in the pool a few hours before the tragedy, but meeting with no success, decided to go in wading. While paddling around in the water young Wilkinson slipped on a shelving bank and sank out of sight of his companions. Before they could muster the courage to venture into the deep water into which the hapless lad had floundered, he was dead.

Richards and Nelson gave the alarm, and Thomas Brown, an employee of the city water works, shortly afterward took the body from the pool and carried it to the horrified parents, who had already heard the sad news.

Young Wilkinson was a pupil at the Jackson school. His father is a calculator in the Rio Grande yards.

There will be no inquest, and if the wishes of the parents are considered, the body will not be removed from the residence.

Note: Additional provided by Cemetery Walker #47037844.