Russel - Georgie - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Martin Russel and wife live several miles  north of this city in the vicinity of Linden. They are childless now but  on October 28th had three bright and pretty children of an interesting  age. It was a happy famiy and everything seemed bright and happy.  Suddenly one day the children took colds and in a few hours the little  five-year-old daughter, Georgie died of a pronounced case of diptheria.  It was a terrible blow to the panrets but their attention was occupied  in attending to their other daughter, Ella, aged nine who was also taken  down with the same disease. For a week they fought death only to be  vanquished in the end. The grief of the parents was terrible and the  poor mother was unconscious the greater part of the time during the  funeral. They had scarcely returned from burying little Ella when their  third and last child, Raymond, a bright 3-year-old boy was also seized  by the terrible disease. With sickened hearts the parents awaited the  final and inevitable end. Death came Saturday afternoon and the burial  occurred Sunday. The scene at the cemetery is said to have been  harrowing in the extreme. Mrs. Russel was wild with distraction and  fainted three times during the short ceremonies at the grave. The last  time she could not be brought to her senses and was taken home in the  hack as one dead. Mr. and Mrs. RUssel are completely prostrated and take  apparently no interest in their surroundings. Mr. Russel had been  peculiarly unfortunate in his children by a former marriage he had 8.  Seven of those and his wife died within a short time of each other and  now all that is left to him of 11 children is one son, a young man  grown.