Straub - Earl
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Thursday, February 26, 1914
Waynetown - On Tuesday afternoon two young children of Mrs. William Straub were buried in the same grave in the Masonic cemetery here following their death Saturday and Sunday respectively, both having suddenly contracted serious cases of laryngitis which with acute heart failure caused their death, Earl, ten years old and Ida, aged six years, were the children. They became ill last week and on Saturday the boy died. Twenty-four hours later the little girl breathed her last. It was first thought that the children had been afflicted with diphtheria, but Dr's. Bounell and Hamilton of Waynetown pronounced the disease laryngitis and an examination of the children's blood by the state board of health failed to reveal any diphtheria germs. The mother is broken hearted at eh sudden taking away of her children and the sympathy of the many friends of the family has been aroused by the sad deaths. Mrs. Straub lives with her family three miles south of Waynetown. Her eldest son, Oscar, is employed in the M.L. Claypool music store at Crawfordsville.
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