PUTNAM -- Police say a 69-year-old Henry man is dead after a boating accident on Senachwine Lake in Putnam County.

Authorities say Kenneth W. Rickey died after falling overboard from a sailboat on the lake.

Illinois Conservation Police Sgt. Robert Frazier said police received a call around 2:45 p.m. Sunday that someone had fallen overboard. Rickey's body was recovered from the lake and he was pronounced dead at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton just after 4 p.m. Sunday.

Henry alderman Tom Davis says Henry was a widow who has two children. Davis says Henry ran at least two businesses including a cell phone business.