The lifeless body of Mrs. Roscoe Buley, nee Miss Esther Giles, a graduate of the Delphi high school, and a former resident of this city was found floating in Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin, about ten o'clock Sunday morning by a stranger in a motor boat, who happened by. As doctors found no water in her lungs and as she was floating in the deep water face upward. It is thought she met this sad fate by suffering heart failure or sun stroke. Robert J. Hay was notified by telegraph Sunday of the death by drowning in a lake near Madison, Wis., of his niece, Mrs. Buley, only daughter of Eber Giles, who left Delphi for Madison about two years ago. This death is a peculiarly sad one inasmuch as Mrs. Buley's mother was only a few weeks ago brought to Delphi for burial, leaving an infant son, who was cared for by the older sister. Mrs. Buley had been married only a year, and had left her home at Springfield, Ill., until Mr. Buley who is a teacher, could join her in her father's home at Madison. Esther Giles Buley was born in Brookston, Indiana, March 4, 1898 and moved to Delphi with her parents a few years later, graduating from the Delphi high school in 1916; moving to Madison. Wisconsin in 1918. On June 20, 1919 she was united in marriage to R. C. Buley, formerly professor of the Delphi high school and located at Springfield, Ill., where he was engaged as a teacher of the public schools. At the time of her untimely death she was 23 years of age. The body arrived in Delphi at 3:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and was taken to the Presbyterian church, where services were conducted by Rev. Rea Martin. Burial was made in the Masonic cemetery. Besides a multitude of friends she leaves a father and four brothers, Claude; Robert, Harold and a month old brother.

Delphi Journal June 2, 1921