Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — FATHER, 13 SONS, ARE SLAIN [ARTICLE]

FATHER, 13 SONS, ARE SLAIN

Two Daughters in French Family Also Killed by Germans —Remarkable Record of War. Paris. —Thirteen sons killed on the field of battle, three discharged with grave injuries, one w’ounded four different times, the father and one daughter summarily shot by the Germans for going to Lille to celebrate the centennial anniversary of a relative, and another daughter killed by a German shell at Dunkirk, is the record of the family of M. Vanhee, a French farmer of Reminghe, near Ypres. , M. Vanhee had 36 children, 22 sons and 14 daughters, all of whom were living when the war broke out. One of his sons was valet to Pope Pius X; he returned to France to fight and was wounded in each of four different engagements. One of the sons lost both legs, another returned from the front blind and deaf, and another underwent the trepanning operation.