Nevada State Journal
November 1, 1917
Page Six
SECOND CHILD IN BLACK FAMILY DIES DIPTHERIA
Harriet Black, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Black of 231 West Third Street died yesterday morning of diphetheria making the second death in that family from the disease within the last week.
Dr. W. L. Samuels, city health physcian, reports that Mrs. Black developed diphtheria yesterday.
There are but seven cases of diphtheria in this city, according to Dr. Samuels. Four of them have been in the Black family and others scattered. He is confident that the threatened epidemic is now well under control, and that it will not spread further.
Ross-Burke Funeral Records
Reno, Nevada, 1904-19
Name: Black, Georgina H.
Nativity: Nevada
Died: 1 Nov 1917
Location: 231 W. 3rd
Years: 8
Months: 1
Days: 28
Buried (or) Shipped to: St. Thomas Cemetery
Funeral Home: Ross-Burke
*I researched on ancestry.com, and from what I could find Georgina was the daughter of John William Black and Celia Roberts. Her sister Teresa Ellen Black survived her bout with the disease, Georgina died three days after her brother Andrew. (In 1920 Teresa Ellen and her mother, Celia, were living with her great uncle Julius Roberts in Reno, NV)
November 1, 1917
Page Six
SECOND CHILD IN BLACK FAMILY DIES DIPTHERIA
Harriet Black, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Black of 231 West Third Street died yesterday morning of diphetheria making the second death in that family from the disease within the last week.
Dr. W. L. Samuels, city health physcian, reports that Mrs. Black developed diphtheria yesterday.
There are but seven cases of diphtheria in this city, according to Dr. Samuels. Four of them have been in the Black family and others scattered. He is confident that the threatened epidemic is now well under control, and that it will not spread further.
Ross-Burke Funeral Records
Reno, Nevada, 1904-19
Name: Black, Georgina H.
Nativity: Nevada
Died: 1 Nov 1917
Location: 231 W. 3rd
Years: 8
Months: 1
Days: 28
Buried (or) Shipped to: St. Thomas Cemetery
Funeral Home: Ross-Burke
*I researched on ancestry.com, and from what I could find Georgina was the daughter of John William Black and Celia Roberts. Her sister Teresa Ellen Black survived her bout with the disease, Georgina died three days after her brother Andrew. (In 1920 Teresa Ellen and her mother, Celia, were living with her great uncle Julius Roberts in Reno, NV)
Nevada State Journal
November 1, 1917
Page Six
SECOND CHILD IN BLACK FAMILY DIES DIPTHERIA
Harriet Black, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Black of 231 West Third Street died yesterday morning of diphetheria making the second death in that family from the disease within the last week.
Dr. W. L. Samuels, city health physcian, reports that Mrs. Black developed diphtheria yesterday.
There are but seven cases of diphtheria in this city, according to Dr. Samuels. Four of them have been in the Black family and others scattered. He is confident that the threatened epidemic is now well under control, and that it will not spread further.
Ross-Burke Funeral Records
Reno, Nevada, 1904-19
Name: Black, Georgina H.
Nativity: Nevada
Died: 1 Nov 1917
Location: 231 W. 3rd
Years: 8
Months: 1
Days: 28
Buried (or) Shipped to: St. Thomas Cemetery
Funeral Home: Ross-Burke
*I researched on ancestry.com, and from what I could find Georgina was the daughter of John William Black and Celia Roberts. Her sister Teresa Ellen Black survived her bout with the disease, Georgina died three days after her brother Andrew. (In 1920 Teresa Ellen and her mother, Celia, were living with her great uncle Julius Roberts in Reno, NV)
November 1, 1917
Page Six
SECOND CHILD IN BLACK FAMILY DIES DIPTHERIA
Harriet Black, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Black of 231 West Third Street died yesterday morning of diphetheria making the second death in that family from the disease within the last week.
Dr. W. L. Samuels, city health physcian, reports that Mrs. Black developed diphtheria yesterday.
There are but seven cases of diphtheria in this city, according to Dr. Samuels. Four of them have been in the Black family and others scattered. He is confident that the threatened epidemic is now well under control, and that it will not spread further.
Ross-Burke Funeral Records
Reno, Nevada, 1904-19
Name: Black, Georgina H.
Nativity: Nevada
Died: 1 Nov 1917
Location: 231 W. 3rd
Years: 8
Months: 1
Days: 28
Buried (or) Shipped to: St. Thomas Cemetery
Funeral Home: Ross-Burke
*I researched on ancestry.com, and from what I could find Georgina was the daughter of John William Black and Celia Roberts. Her sister Teresa Ellen Black survived her bout with the disease, Georgina died three days after her brother Andrew. (In 1920 Teresa Ellen and her mother, Celia, were living with her great uncle Julius Roberts in Reno, NV)
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