Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — Death of a Faith Healer's Child. [ARTICLE]

Death of a Faith Healer's Child.

Lester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thornton, of south of Surrey, died Thursday a. m., after quite a long siokness. He had been sick for quite a long time, and as we are informed had but little if any medical treatment, Mr. Thornton being an adherent of the faith core fanaticism, and refusing to give the ohild doctors’ medicine. The child was abont 7 or 8 years old. Funeral at the residence Saturday, at 11 a. m. Burial in Weston oemetery.