Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-31
IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED.
MIR. AND MRS. EDWARD A. TYLER DROWNED THE
CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Dead Over Night Before the Tragedy
saddest Event in the History of Brattleboro
The Finding OF the Bodies.

and the deep holes and rocks on the bot
tom.
The Finding Of the Bodies.
Both the bodies were recovered this
forenoon. The diver began work from the
raft soon after o'clock. Many people
were on either bank of abe river. Direct.
ly opposite the bluff and point where the
cottage stands is a double point of rocks
extending out from the New Hampshire
side. About quarter of 10 people stand
ing on or between these points saw the
body OF Mrs. Tyler rise about 30 feet from
the shore, float for a moment and sink
again. II was face downward and the
arms were extended. Within half or three
quarters of an hour the body of Mr.. TYLER
arose not more than 40 or so feet distant,
near boat in which were G.. A. Boyden
and John Calvin. They secured the body
and tOwed IL to the raft, to which it was
fastened. Soon after the body of Mrs.
Tyler floated again and it also was secured.
and the two tOwed with the raft to the
Vermont side, where, in due time. the
bodies were taken from the water aud
placed in charge of Undertaken Bond
The body of Mr.. Tyler was carefully ex-
amined by DR.. Ketchum and no marks of
any kind found. His arms were bent in
front of him In position as if they had
been clasped about some object. Undoubt-
eddy they had been clasped about his wife,
loosening as the bodies began TO grow
light in the water.
The diver did not see either body when
upon the bottom. 1t was evident to those
making the search that the disturbance of
the water and the river bottom made by
the diver and those dragging with grapnels
caused the bodies TO float, they having al
ready become partially filled with gas
The bodies arrived in the street at noon
and were taken to Mr. Bonds rooms for
embalming and TO be made ready for
burial. They will be taken to Mr. and
Mrs. Tyler's apartments in the BROOKS
House. Public funeral services will be
held at the Episcopal church at II o'clock
tomorrow morning; private services at
the home of Mr.. Tyler's parents in Yer
non at p. NJ. The burial will be in Yer
non.
Sketch of Their Lives.
Edward A. Tyler was native Of Yer
non, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Erastus
Tyler, and the third in a family of eight
children. He grew up in Vernon, and
after taking a course at Powers institute
in Bernardston he came 10 Brattleboro as
a clerk in VIM. S. Newton's grocery store.
From there he came to the store of Stick
ney Brothers, the present A. z. Roberts *
Co.'S stand. In these positions he attract
ed attention as an unusually bright, prom
ising boy. When Adams IL Crosby bought
the Brooks House in 1889 and assumed its
management Tyler went there as clerk.
He developed a decided capablity as a
hotel man, and in June, 1892, took lease
of the house and became its proprietor.
He has proved himself an active and en-
terprising landlord, has conducted the
house upon modern and approved lines,
and has acquired wide popularity with the
travelling public, as well as with summer
guests and permanent boarders at this well
known house. No young man in Brattie-
orc had better promise of a successful
business career. Mr.. Tyler was married
on the 10Th day of January last. The
drowning, therefore, took place six months
10 day from the date of their marriage
Mr.. Tyler was identified with the work of
the Unitarian society, and had been for
several years member of its prudential
committee. He was a Free Mason and a
member of the order of Red Men. He
carried life and accident insurance aggre-
eating SIS, 200.
The maiden name of Mrs. Tyler was
Leila Elizabeth Williamson. She was the
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac William
son and was born in Elizabeth, y. J. Her
age was 20. The family have been resi-
dents OF Brattleboro at the Brooks House
for about four years. Mrs. Tyler was ed
ucated at a private school in Elizabeth,
and was woman of unusual cultivation
as well as of maturity of thought and per-
ception. She loved what was best in lit
erature and, by natural taste, avoiding
what was light and frivolous, read books
of solid merit. She possessed sweetness
of manner which won universal admira-
ton, and the friends of her heart knew her
temper and disposition to be of unvarying
evenness, kindness and gentleness. This
was not merely a natural trait, 1t was a
daily and hourly practice from inward
principle and conviction. The union of
husband and wife had been one of radiant
happiness.
Notes.
Wednesday afternoon, Just before G
o'clock, as T. j. B. Cudworth and three
women drove across the suspension bridge,
they saw two people floating on logs some
distance below the point where the cottage
stands. They did not look like log men
though two of the drivers have since stated
that they were coming down the river at
about that time.
c. p. ellison was driving toward Brat
tleboro Wednesday afternoon about 4
O'Clock. As he crossed the bridge he heard
a shout and looking up the river saw either
some one in white or waving white arti-
Gle, standing at the waters edge at the foot
of the bluff where the cottage stands. At
the time he thought it some one at play,
but has since thought it may have been
some one trying TO attract his attention.
As the event proves probably neither of
these incidents had any connection with
the drowning.
Mrs. Tyler was an expert swimmer. At
Block Island she was accounted one of the
best swimmers of her sex who has ever
visited that place. Although slight In fg-