Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Death Of Little Mary Benjamin. [ARTICLE]

Death Of Little Mary Benjamin.

Mr. and MreN-&i' P. Benjamin have suffered thegrevious affliction* of the death of fheir little daughter - Mary Ruth, the eh»ld of their middle life, and the expected comfort of their old age. She was taken suddenly very severely sick two weeks ago last Tuesday, her trouble being at first diagnosed as in the heart and later in the stomach, but the final decision, after a council of physicians, was that she bad inflamation of the brain, and that it probably was caused by a tubercular growth on some portion of the brain, and in that case, her sickness was hopeless froih the start. She finally passed into a comatose conj dition three days ago, and from that passed to the fin 1 sleep at 5:30 o’clock on, Thursday morning. She was eight years old the 17tb day of last March, and has always been an uimsually bright and attractive child.

The funeral will be held Friday, at 2:30 o’clock p. in., at the residence on south Front street, by Rev. H. L. Kindig. The services are to be held at the residence on account of Mrs. Benjamin’s condition, she being in poor health at best and now entirely prostrated. Interment will be made in Weston cemetery.