Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — LINDSEY SHARPNACK’S DEATH DUE TO APPENDICITIS [ARTICLE]

LINDSEY SHARPNACK’S DEATH DUE TO APPENDICITIS

The following extracts are taken from a letter received by Mrs. Sylvester Gray from a Chicago lady and tell of the death of * Lindsey Sharpnack, a teacher in the high school of this city three years ago: “We received your much appreciated letter a few days ago. We came back to the city a week ago. I was in the east at the time of Lindsey’s death, and had been there for about ~a month. J. C. received -a--wire-onra-Friday sey’s illness and. left on ihe evening train. It takes two days and two nights to make the trip, so he did not reach there until Sunday afternoon. Lindsey scarcely recognized him, not enough to talk, and just lived two hours. “He had been suffering for a week but would not consent to an operation. Finally when they did operate the appendix had been broken for two or three days, so, of course, there was little or no hope. “Lindsey was determined to make good and was working hard, and, I presume, feeling fine. “The casket was opened here for a number of friends and also for somg coming from Valparaiso. He was given a military burial at his home in Carmichael, Pa.”