Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — A Terribly Afflicted Family. [ARTICLE]

A Terribly Afflicted Family.

The family of George Faris, of Gillam tp., one of the best known and most highly esteemed iu the township, are terribly afflicted with a fatal and seemingly mysterious malady. One year ago last month his wife and one daughter (lied of a disease resembling consumption, and were buried on the same da}’. A week ago last Sunday another daughter, the wife of Chas. Hanley, died in the same house, of the same disease, at the age of about 21 or 22 years; and on Tuesday of this week, another daughter, Nora, died in the same manner. Her age was about 19 years. At the time of her mother’s and sister’s deaths, a year ago, she was, apparently, the strongest and healthiest young lady in the township. What makes these deaths seem ixexplicable, is that there has never been, so far as known, any trace of hereditary consumption, in either branch of the family.