-----------
From "The Hamilton County Register", Aurora, Nebraska dated Saturday, March 10, 1894, Page 5:
Obituary
DIED: -- March 5th Clyde Oliver, age 7 months, youngest child of James and Mary Snodgrass. The family reside near Bromfield and have been sorely afflicted with the measles, the mother and seven children all sick at the same time. The babe after a severe attact of measles had pneumonia then getting better, relapsed into brain and spinal trouble, of which it died. The family have the sympathy of the entire community.
--------------
From "The Aurora Republican", Aurora, Nebraska dated Friday, March 9, 1894, Page 5:
Obituary
DIED: -- March 5, 1894, Clyde Oliver, age 7 months, youngest child of James and Mary Snodgrass. The mother and seven children were all down at the same time with measles. The little one had measles, then pneumonia followed with brain and spinal trouble.
"It is well! Nor would we our babe recall,
And soothing and sweet are the tears that fall;
But a few brief pains on his mother's breast
And we lay him down on his holy rest,
Ere the world its snares around him threw,
Or its sins and its cares he ever knew."
-----------
From "The Hamilton County Register", Aurora, Nebraska dated Saturday, March 10, 1894, Page 5:
Obituary
DIED: -- March 5th Clyde Oliver, age 7 months, youngest child of James and Mary Snodgrass. The family reside near Bromfield and have been sorely afflicted with the measles, the mother and seven children all sick at the same time. The babe after a severe attact of measles had pneumonia then getting better, relapsed into brain and spinal trouble, of which it died. The family have the sympathy of the entire community.
--------------
From "The Aurora Republican", Aurora, Nebraska dated Friday, March 9, 1894, Page 5:
Obituary
DIED: -- March 5, 1894, Clyde Oliver, age 7 months, youngest child of James and Mary Snodgrass. The mother and seven children were all down at the same time with measles. The little one had measles, then pneumonia followed with brain and spinal trouble.
"It is well! Nor would we our babe recall,
And soothing and sweet are the tears that fall;
But a few brief pains on his mother's breast
And we lay him down on his holy rest,
Ere the world its snares around him threw,
Or its sins and its cares he ever knew."
Family Members
Advertisement
Advertisement