Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — Mrs. Vernon Hopkins Dies After Extended Sickness. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Vernon Hopkins Dies After Extended Sickness.

Mrs. Vernon Hopkins died Friday night at 10 minutes before i 0 o'clock at her home on Scott street, after an illness of about nineteen months. Consumption was the cause of death. Her maiden name was Effie Hiatt, and she was married to Vernon Hopkins at Wabash on March 17th, 1905. To their union were born two daughters, one being past three years of age and the other 19 months old. Her health began to fail after the last child was born. For some time she had been failing rapidly and when the county commissioners at their March meeting provided for her being taken to the tuberculosis hospital it was realized that her condition was probably beyond medical aid. She was so poorly that it was decided not to take her to the hospital and she sank rapidly for the past three weeks. She was J 5 years of age and leaves a husband and two little daughters. Her sister, Miss Merle Hiatt, had been at her bedside for two weeks and her father, Charles O. Hiatt, arrived from Wabash Thursday evening, a day before her death. / . The funeral will take place at the Presbyterian church Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial will be made in Weston cemetery.