Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1914 — MRS. L N. HEMPHILL DIED IN HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

MRS. L N. HEMPHILL DIED IN HOSPITAL

Operated On. Last Friday and Was Apparently. Recovering When Sudden Collapse Came. Mrs. Isaac N. Hemphill, iof this city, died Wednesday night at 11:30 o’clock in Hahnemann hospital. Chicago, where she was operated on for an abdominal cyst Friday of last week. She was operated on by Dr. Clark, a surgeon who has operated many Rensselaer cases and she seemed to be getting along excellently and the family was given every encouragement that she' would fully recover.

Miss Minnie Hemphill had been with her mother ever since the operation and so greatly* improved did she seem Wednesday evening that Miss (Minnie came home that, evening, arriving here at 11:05 o’clock. It was only a few minutes after arriving home that the sad message came that hex mother had passed away. It was Dr; Clark who telephoned and he stated that within, three minutes of her death she was breathing naturally and her pulse was regular. Apparently an attack of heart trouble caused her death. The body will reach Rensselaer this afternoon, Undertaker Wright having accompanied members of the family to Chicago this m or ning. The funeral will probably take place Saturday. Deceased is survived by Jier husband and five children, namely, Minnie, Elizabeth, George, John and Floyd. Mrs. C. J. Dean and Mrs. David Alter, of this city, and Mrs. L. W. Benbow, qf Winamac, are sisters. (Mm- Mary E. Troxell is the step-mother of the deceased.