Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — Daughter of O. K. Ritchey Died in Wichita Hospital. [ARTICLE]

Daughter of O. K. Ritchey Died in Wichita Hospital.

Mrs. Elsie Ritchey Hard, daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. O. K. Ritchey, died Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, in a hospital at Wichita, Kans. Death is thought to have been due to dropsical conditions that had caused her to undergo one or two slight surgical operations/ Miss Ritchie left her home here about two years ago and went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Albert Farmer, and her brother, Chase Ritchey, in Oklahoma City. There she was married to'William Hurd last Thanksgiving day. Her age was 23 years. The news of her death was a sad shock to her relatives and her friends in Jasper county. The body was shipped from Wichita and was expected to reach Rensselaer yesterday morning, but it did not reach Chicago in time to permit the transfer and catch the 11:30 train. It was expected then that the corpse would reach here at 1:58, but a blunder of the depot employees is said to have caused a failure to make the shipment. The body reached here on the 5:58 train Monday evening and a brief service was held at the Christian church. It was largely attended by friends and neighbors of the Ritchey family and the sorrow all felt was shown by the general gfief at the service. The corpse looked so unnatural that friepds could hardly identify it as that of Elsie Ritchey, who was so well and favorably known during her life in Jasper county. Mrs. O. K. Ritchey, mother of the deceased, aed Chase Ritchey, her brother, accompanied the body from Wichita.