Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — THREE SISTERS DIE IN WEEK [ARTICLE]

THREE SISTERS DIE IN WEEK

Fourth Child in Benton County Not Expected to Live. Nashville, Indiana, February 27. —Three - daughters of George Sturgeon, formerly a resident of Nashville, died within a week at their home in Templeton, Benton county, according to Mrs. Solomon Brunnet, grandmother of the children who has returned to her home here after spending a week at the Sturgeon home. Alda Sturgeon, age 8% died Monday, February 19, after a brief illness; Velma, age 4, died early last Sunday, and Stella, age 2, .died Sunday evening. The only child "remaining in the family, Alva, age 3, is sick and the doctors say, will die. Eight- physicians in Benton county have been unable to determine the cause of the deaths. The children had measles, but the doctors said this did not cause their deaths. An investigation is being made of water used at the Sturgeon home. Mrs. Sturgeon, a daughter of Solomon Brunnet, a farmer living near here, is in a serious condition of shock over her children’s deaths.