Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — Death of Miss Ada Mayhew. [ARTICLE]

Death of Miss Ada Mayhew.

l»nd, Calif., wbere she had been staying for treatment for some time. The oauee of her death is understood to have been consumption. She was 25 years old, was born in Rensselaer, and left here with her parents about 21 years ago.—--™ ; g She is well known here, as she stayed here with her relatives for six months, from September 1901 to Maroh 1902.; and made hosts of warm friends by her many amiable and noble qualities. The day of her death lacked'only three days of being just a year from the date of the death of her younger sister, Edna Mayhew, at Red Bluffs, and of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ernest Mayhew, at Chicago, both of whom, as will be remembered, died on the same day. All three died from the same disease. This death leaves Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew with only one obild living, their son Dr. Ernest Mayhew. She was a neioe of I. J. and R B. Porter, Mrs. Jennie Wishard, Mrs. Ella Lrealer and Miss Sarah E. Watson, of Rensselaer.