Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — ENTIRE FAMILY IS VICTIM [ARTICLE]

ENTIRE FAMILY IS VICTIM

FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN BURIED IN SAME GRAVE THURSDAY. Last Monday morning a message received here by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nowels announcing the death of Mr. Nowels* neice, Mrs. Laurence Nickel, and. baby daughter, Edith, at Longmont, Colorado, and that Mr. Nickel and another daughter were seriously ill and not expected to live. Thursday morning another message came to the same parties stating that Mr. Nickel had passed away Tuesday and that Virginia, the other daughter, had died Wednesday. Thus was an entire family carried away within a period of three days by the dread disease, influenza. Mrs. Nickel was the daughter of Charles Nowels, a former resident of this city, and was well known by many of our citizens, who will be saddened indeed to leam of her death as well as the other members of her family. Thursday the remains of the little family were buried in, one grave in apretty little cemetery in Longmont.