Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — TRIPLETS BORN AFTER DEATH [ARTICLE]

TRIPLETS BORN AFTER DEATH

Posthumous Babes Are Hearty and Physicians Are of the Opinion ' That They tyill Live. Altoona, Pa. —Posthumous triplets were born to Mrs. Mary Gordon of Tatesvllle, Bedford county, at the hospital at Roaring Springs, and the doctor believes they will live, although the mother died an hour before their birth. They are lubty babes, two girls and a boy. The boy weighs 5% pounds, one girl 4 pounds, the other 5% pounds, or 14% pounds all toldSome months ago tbe father died and last week Mrs. Gordon’s son. Arlington, a brakeman, was killed in the Pennsylvania yards here. Deeply depressed by the double bereavement, her life hung in the balance. Ten children were previously botti to her.