Marjorie May, 18 month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hillard was drowned in a water tank near their barn Friday shortly before noon. The child had been in the yard playing with her brother and when the men came from the field for dinner, Mrs. Hillard missed the child and became alarmed. She ran to the barn and found the child’s body in the water tank but life was extinct. The parents are griefstricken. The funeral was held from the home north of Lyons Sunday and burial in the Lyons Cemetery – Lyons Journal.