Published in the Rochester(IN) Sentinel, Saturday, April 9, 1881
One of the worst cases of family afflictions that has come to our knowledge for a long time, occurred in Newcastle township a mile and a half this side of Bloomingsburg, on Tuesday. On the morning of that day Mr. T[homas] J. CARUTHERS went out upon his farm to work leaving a wife and a babe two months old at home in the full enjoyment of health. It was a joyous household - father, mother and prattling child. As he kissed the wife and baby before starting out to his work, little did he think of the change that would be made in that happy family in a few brief hours. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of that husband when he returned at 11 o'clock to find his wife stretched upon the floor a corpse and the child tied in its chair unconscious of the condition of the lifeless mother. It appears that after the morning work had been done, Mrs. Carruthers placed the child in its chair and sat down by the side to sew. She must have been stricken with apoplexy or heart disease as she had fallen from the chair to the floor with her sewing in her hand, in which condition she was found. The deceased Mary Ann (McMAHAN) CARUTHERS was the eldest daughter of Wm. McMAHAN, who is well known to all the citizens of this county.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obit%20Bios/Html/FulCo%20Obits_Biogs%201880-1885.htm
One of the worst cases of family afflictions that has come to our knowledge for a long time, occurred in Newcastle township a mile and a half this side of Bloomingsburg, on Tuesday. On the morning of that day Mr. T[homas] J. CARUTHERS went out upon his farm to work leaving a wife and a babe two months old at home in the full enjoyment of health. It was a joyous household - father, mother and prattling child. As he kissed the wife and baby before starting out to his work, little did he think of the change that would be made in that happy family in a few brief hours. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of that husband when he returned at 11 o'clock to find his wife stretched upon the floor a corpse and the child tied in its chair unconscious of the condition of the lifeless mother. It appears that after the morning work had been done, Mrs. Carruthers placed the child in its chair and sat down by the side to sew. She must have been stricken with apoplexy or heart disease as she had fallen from the chair to the floor with her sewing in her hand, in which condition she was found. The deceased Mary Ann (McMAHAN) CARUTHERS was the eldest daughter of Wm. McMAHAN, who is well known to all the citizens of this county.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obit%20Bios/Html/FulCo%20Obits_Biogs%201880-1885.htm
Published in the Rochester(IN) Sentinel, Saturday, April 9, 1881
One of the worst cases of family afflictions that has come to our knowledge for a long time, occurred in Newcastle township a mile and a half this side of Bloomingsburg, on Tuesday. On the morning of that day Mr. T[homas] J. CARUTHERS went out upon his farm to work leaving a wife and a babe two months old at home in the full enjoyment of health. It was a joyous household - father, mother and prattling child. As he kissed the wife and baby before starting out to his work, little did he think of the change that would be made in that happy family in a few brief hours. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of that husband when he returned at 11 o'clock to find his wife stretched upon the floor a corpse and the child tied in its chair unconscious of the condition of the lifeless mother. It appears that after the morning work had been done, Mrs. Carruthers placed the child in its chair and sat down by the side to sew. She must have been stricken with apoplexy or heart disease as she had fallen from the chair to the floor with her sewing in her hand, in which condition she was found. The deceased Mary Ann (McMAHAN) CARUTHERS was the eldest daughter of Wm. McMAHAN, who is well known to all the citizens of this county.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obit%20Bios/Html/FulCo%20Obits_Biogs%201880-1885.htm
One of the worst cases of family afflictions that has come to our knowledge for a long time, occurred in Newcastle township a mile and a half this side of Bloomingsburg, on Tuesday. On the morning of that day Mr. T[homas] J. CARUTHERS went out upon his farm to work leaving a wife and a babe two months old at home in the full enjoyment of health. It was a joyous household - father, mother and prattling child. As he kissed the wife and baby before starting out to his work, little did he think of the change that would be made in that happy family in a few brief hours. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of that husband when he returned at 11 o'clock to find his wife stretched upon the floor a corpse and the child tied in its chair unconscious of the condition of the lifeless mother. It appears that after the morning work had been done, Mrs. Carruthers placed the child in its chair and sat down by the side to sew. She must have been stricken with apoplexy or heart disease as she had fallen from the chair to the floor with her sewing in her hand, in which condition she was found. The deceased Mary Ann (McMAHAN) CARUTHERS was the eldest daughter of Wm. McMAHAN, who is well known to all the citizens of this county.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obit%20Bios/Html/FulCo%20Obits_Biogs%201880-1885.htm
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