Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1916 — Mrs Virginia Halstead Very Low and Death Expected. [ARTICLE]

Mrs Virginia Halstead Very Low and Death Expected.

Mrs. Virginia Halstead, the.venerable mother of the Halstead boys, is now in a very critical condition of health and it is not thought can survive many days. She has a cancer of the breast and surgical and medical treatment have failed to give more' than temporary relief. She is not aware that her son, William, lost his life in an accident Thursday. This information was kept from her, for fear it would have a serious effefct on her. Of eight sons bom to her, six survive. Edward, whose death occurred some years ago, also met death by accident. He was teaching school In the northwest and a boy scholar who was playing with a revo’ver accidentally shot and killed him. The funeral arrangements for William Halstead have not been completed, awaiting answers from Sanford Halstead, of Wyoming, and Rankin Halstead, of Alabama.