Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — Nephew of Hammerton Brothens Dies After Surgical Operation. [ARTICLE]

Nephew of Hammerton Brothens Dies After Surgical Operation.

Lemuel Hammerton received a telegram this Monday morning informing him of the death at 5 o’clock at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette of his nephew, Ross Manahan, son of Lem's sister, Mrs. Nellie Manahan, of Wellington, 111. Ross was operated on for appendicitis at the hospital last Friday. He was in his seventeenth year and was a great help to his mother, being employed at Wellington, 111., as janitor of the school house at a salary of 130 per month and also being a member of the second class in high school. He was an excellent young man and his death will be a great shock to all his relatives and friends. George and Lem Hammerton went to Lafayette this morning and the body will be returned here on the 5:44 train this evening and will be taken to the home of Lem Hammerton. The funeral will probably take place Wednesday morning, interment being made in Weston cemetery. It was just three weeks ago today that Elias Hammerton, grandfather of the young ntan, was buried in this city.