Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — MRS. WILLIAM BRAKE DIED SUNDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

MRS. WILLIAM BRAKE DIED SUNDAY NIGHT

Husband an Operator at Depot— Prematurely Born Child and Poor Nursing Has ten Death.

Mrs. William Brake, whose husband has been employed as a telegraph operator at the depot here, died this Monday morning at 2 o’clock at their home on Yap Rensselaer street, just south of the Christian church. She was 30 years ►of age and was married to Brake last May. For the past month she has been ill, suffering from malaria, and a week ago Sunday night gave premature birth to a babe that lived for sevefal hours. Since then she has gradually tailed until death came at the hour stated. What nursing she received was done by the husband and the woman’s father, Hugh Pursley, and by two or three kind neighbors, but she did not have the care that she should have had under the circumstances and it is almost certain that her removal to the hospital or the employment of a nurse would have prolonged or possibly have saved her lifa Brake formerly lived in Kokomo and has been here since Sept. 24th. His wife’s maiden name was Maud Pursley and she had been married once before and had one child, George Brown, 6 years old, by that marriage The husband has also been married before and has three children, only one of which was living with him here. It is reported that the deceased woman has had much to discourage her and the fact that she was not provided with the proper sort of care during her sickness doubtless hastened her death. The body will he shipped to Kokomo Tuesday, leaving Rensselaer on the 11:32 train.