Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1911 — NIECE OF B. FORSYTHE DIED SUNDAY NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

NIECE OF B. FORSYTHE DIED SUNDAY NIGHT.

Miss Cora Meece, Who Came Here to Attend School, Victim of Disease Of the Stomach. ■■■■■■■--y ■ An extremely sad death occurred at 1:30 o’clock’this Monday morning at the hoine of B. Forsythe, the victim being his niece, Miss Cora E. Meece, who came here to attend schdol and keep house for her uncle. Death was due to an ulcer of the stomach, which had made the young woman an invalid for the past three or four years. Sir came here the latter part of August and entered the Rensselaer high school, most of her studies being in the Junior grade. Soon after she began school she became much worse physically and was compelled to give up her school work. She was treated by a local physician and 7 another doctor was consulted and on their advice she was taken to Chicago for examination by a specialist. He treated her there for four days and she was returned here Sunday, Oct. 15th, the specialist having given instructions that she be given no food for a week. Miss Minnie Hemphill was employed as special nurse and was constantly with the young woman, who did not seem to grow any worse until Sunday. She could retain nothing on her stomach and during the entire week partook of no food nor water except ? little cracked ice. Saturday she was given an ounce of ice cream but this she vomited out. She was very cheerful all the time and Saturday said that she was no worse than she had been at other times. She did not write to her father or brothers and neither did Mr, Forsythe. Sunday she was very much worse and Dr. W. Milton Portis the specialist who had examined her, was called for. He did not arrive until the 6:02 train in the evening, and Miss Meece had then been unconscious since noon. He could do nothing for ller and she never regained consciousness, passing away at 1:30 o’clock that night. Deceased was the youngest child and only daughter of Mr. Forsythe’s sister who died four years ago. She had continued as housekeeper for her father for some time and after he broke up housekeeping she kept house for her brother until he was married. Mr. Forsythe then to give her a home here. His wife died only a few months before and it was Mr. Forsythe’s plan to keep his big home open, making everything comfortable for his niece. They ate their meals at the Comer house. Miss Meece was an excellent student but she had been kept out of school much of the timq for the past four years on account of her poor health. She made many friends during her short stay here and all are shocked at her passing away so unexpectedly. Deceased would have been 20 years of age on Dec. 20th. She leaves a father and three brothers, who reside on a farm near Dixon, 111., to which place the body will be taken for burial. A short service will be conducted by Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church at the Forsythe residence this this evening at 7 o’clock and the body will be shipped to Dixon tomorrow morning.