Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1913 — LITTLE DEMOTTE GIRL PASSED AWAY [ARTICLE]

LITTLE DEMOTTE GIRL PASSED AWAY

8-Tear-Old Daughter of Will Wells Died at Home of Grandparents Friday Morning. Hester, 8-year-old daughter of William Wells, of DqMotte, died Friday morning at the home ot her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. L. N. Wells, after a sickness of fever, not positively determined to be typhoid. At the time d!**ffler death and for several days before her aged grandfather lay very low with pneumonia and Dr. E. C. English was called there in consultation with another doctor to see him. He did not administer to the child but saw her and realized- that her condition was very critical the day he was tßere, Wednesday. Dr. Wells is thought to be some better. Little Hester was sick about two weeks and her death is a great shock to the grandparents and the father. The funeral is being held this Saturday afternoon and is being attended by Attorney A. Halleck and children, Lura, Charles and Harold, of Rensselaer, and by Mrs. Chester Besse, of Remington, all of whom are related to the Wells family.