Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — Death of Afflicted Young Woman. [ARTICLE]

Death of Afflicted Young Woman.

Death came as a relief Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock to Miss Fannie Johnson, a greatly afflicted young woman who for a number of years has lived with and been cared for by her uncle, Frank Phillips, who lived in the south part of town. She was the daughter of Simon Johnson and formerly lived in the neighborhood of Lee. When only two years of age she suffered a stroke of infantile paralysis from which she never re-

covered and she had been a sufferer for moye than thirty-three years, being now more than 35 years of age. For several years she was able to be pushed about in a chair but she has been almost entirely helpless all her life, and for some years has been subject to infrequent epileptic attacks attacks, and later of bronchitis and chronic bright’s disease. She had an epileptic attack Tuesday evening and death resulted directly from Fortunately she was not without some means for her support and her brother, Samuel Johnson, of White county, was the administrator of the property left her and took every possible care of her, employing medical aid recently to see if her life could not be spared. A brief funeral service will be held at the Frank Phillips’ residence Thursday morning by Rev. G. H. Clarke of the Christian church, and the remains will be taken on the 11 o'clock train to Lee and burial made in the Osborne cemetery.