Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — Death of Mrs. Alta McDonald. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Alta McDonald.

Mrs. Alta McDonald, whose hopeless sickness has been mentioned, died last, Wednesday, Juns 1, at 4:30 a- m , at the home of her sister, M»s. W, H. Beam, on Elm street. The cause of her death was dropsy and she had been acutely sick since last Christmas and an

invalid four yeare. She was born in Ohio in 1861 and her age was 42 years, 6 months and 10 days. She has been a widow eight years, her husband being A. 0. McDonald. Two children born to her are both dead. She leaves six brothers and platers, W. W. Wright, Edward Wright and F. A. Wright, and Mrs. C. M. Burleigh, all of California, Mrs. A. T. White of Cairo, Mich, and Mrs. Beam of Rensselaer. The funeral services will be held Friday, atlhe residence, at 2,30 o’clock p. m. by Rev. J. M. Elam, Burial in Weston cemetery