Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1899 — Death of Grace Bowman. [ARTICLE]

Death of Grace Bowman.

Grace Bowman, daughter of Mrs. Mattie Bowman Henkle, died ot consumption at Fountain Col. Thursday at 8 a. m. aged 15 years and 23 days. She Was buried Friday at 10 a. tn. Mrs. Henkle moved to Colorado in April in the hopes of recovering the health of her two children, Graoe and Fred, both failing from the same dread disease. Fred is now very low, and another daughter, Mrs. Cora North of Wichita, Kansas is also afflicted in the same manner, and at present is not in much better condition. Another son Santford is at present living there and enjoying fair health, he also, going there to recuperate. This is the fifth one of her family, that Mrs. Henkle has lust from the same disease, her first husband, and in the last few years, her son Charles, at Wichita, Daisy and Edward here, and Mrs. Florence Sayler, at Medaryville this spring, and these her unfortunate ones, most of whom only lived long enough to taste of life, and suffer the worst of deaths are buried, part of them here and the rest in the far West.