Paul Gest Dead.
Paul, the seven year-old son of Congressman and Mrs. W.H. Gest, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the home of his parents, 1203 Second avenue, of diphtheria, with which the little fellow was stricken last wednesday. Drs. Craig, Wyster and Plummer were all called in, and everything possible was done to check the ravages of the disease, but without avail, and the little sufferer found relief only in death. Paul was an unusually bright child, very well known and beloved by all. His death is a terrible blow to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gest have four other children, living but none are so far afflicted with the disease.
(The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island Illinois, Tuesday, October 25, 1887)
Paul, the seven year-old son of Congressman and Mrs. W.H. Gest, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the home of his parents, 1203 Second avenue, of diphtheria, with which the little fellow was stricken last wednesday. Drs. Craig, Wyster and Plummer were all called in, and everything possible was done to check the ravages of the disease, but without avail, and the little sufferer found relief only in death. Paul was an unusually bright child, very well known and beloved by all. His death is a terrible blow to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gest have four other children, living but none are so far afflicted with the disease.
(The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island Illinois, Tuesday, October 25, 1887)
Paul Gest Dead.
Paul, the seven year-old son of Congressman and Mrs. W.H. Gest, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the home of his parents, 1203 Second avenue, of diphtheria, with which the little fellow was stricken last wednesday. Drs. Craig, Wyster and Plummer were all called in, and everything possible was done to check the ravages of the disease, but without avail, and the little sufferer found relief only in death. Paul was an unusually bright child, very well known and beloved by all. His death is a terrible blow to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gest have four other children, living but none are so far afflicted with the disease.
(The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island Illinois, Tuesday, October 25, 1887)
Paul, the seven year-old son of Congressman and Mrs. W.H. Gest, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the home of his parents, 1203 Second avenue, of diphtheria, with which the little fellow was stricken last wednesday. Drs. Craig, Wyster and Plummer were all called in, and everything possible was done to check the ravages of the disease, but without avail, and the little sufferer found relief only in death. Paul was an unusually bright child, very well known and beloved by all. His death is a terrible blow to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gest have four other children, living but none are so far afflicted with the disease.
(The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island Illinois, Tuesday, October 25, 1887)
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shares stone with siblings Eliot and Alice in GEST family plot - on NW side of the long narrow section that runs west-east across the center of cemetery, , 21Nov2020
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