In 1902, Tom and Sarah Brown's eldest daughter, Maude, became ill with what was probably tuberculosis (known then as consumption). The Ohio weather was hard on Maude, and Tom and Sarah decided in early 1903 that Sarah would take her back to her family home in Kansas in the hope that the milder climate there might help her. At 8:30 Sunday morning of April 12th, Sarah took pen in hand and wrote her husband and children at home that Maude was not expected to live. She wrote:
"Ewry and Jodie are going to Harper today to get Maude some oysters and lemons. She rested some last night and is somewhat refreshed this morn, but she can't take any nourishment to amount to anything. Can only take a little sip of water at a time. She gets so smothery when she tries to swallow. Her feet and ankles are swollen so badly dear husband and children. She told me to tell you to be good children and not ever be saucy to pa and Mother, and she wants pa to join the church and all of you children . . . . She is so weak she can scarcely talk. Last evening she said she would like to hear some singing, and we were all feeling so bad we could not sing, but Brammer's children are coming this afternoon, and they are good singers and will sing for her."
Sarah was interrupted in her letter when Maude took a turn for the worse and was unable to finish it. Her niece, Sadie Brammer Jones, added a note at about 8:30 pm that Maude was not expected to live to midnight. And finally a few minutes later she added the postscript.
"Maude breathed her last at ten minutes past twelve o'clock . . . Maude passed away just as easy as could be. She realized she was going to die, and was so patient—did not dread it at all."
Contributor: LJG (47852615)
"Ewry and Jodie are going to Harper today to get Maude some oysters and lemons. She rested some last night and is somewhat refreshed this morn, but she can't take any nourishment to amount to anything. Can only take a little sip of water at a time. She gets so smothery when she tries to swallow. Her feet and ankles are swollen so badly dear husband and children. She told me to tell you to be good children and not ever be saucy to pa and Mother, and she wants pa to join the church and all of you children . . . . She is so weak she can scarcely talk. Last evening she said she would like to hear some singing, and we were all feeling so bad we could not sing, but Brammer's children are coming this afternoon, and they are good singers and will sing for her."
Sarah was interrupted in her letter when Maude took a turn for the worse and was unable to finish it. Her niece, Sadie Brammer Jones, added a note at about 8:30 pm that Maude was not expected to live to midnight. And finally a few minutes later she added the postscript.
"Maude breathed her last at ten minutes past twelve o'clock . . . Maude passed away just as easy as could be. She realized she was going to die, and was so patient—did not dread it at all."
Contributor: LJG (47852615)
In 1902, Tom and Sarah Brown's eldest daughter, Maude, became ill with what was probably tuberculosis (known then as consumption). The Ohio weather was hard on Maude, and Tom and Sarah decided in early 1903 that Sarah would take her back to her family home in Kansas in the hope that the milder climate there might help her. At 8:30 Sunday morning of April 12th, Sarah took pen in hand and wrote her husband and children at home that Maude was not expected to live. She wrote:
"Ewry and Jodie are going to Harper today to get Maude some oysters and lemons. She rested some last night and is somewhat refreshed this morn, but she can't take any nourishment to amount to anything. Can only take a little sip of water at a time. She gets so smothery when she tries to swallow. Her feet and ankles are swollen so badly dear husband and children. She told me to tell you to be good children and not ever be saucy to pa and Mother, and she wants pa to join the church and all of you children . . . . She is so weak she can scarcely talk. Last evening she said she would like to hear some singing, and we were all feeling so bad we could not sing, but Brammer's children are coming this afternoon, and they are good singers and will sing for her."
Sarah was interrupted in her letter when Maude took a turn for the worse and was unable to finish it. Her niece, Sadie Brammer Jones, added a note at about 8:30 pm that Maude was not expected to live to midnight. And finally a few minutes later she added the postscript.
"Maude breathed her last at ten minutes past twelve o'clock . . . Maude passed away just as easy as could be. She realized she was going to die, and was so patient—did not dread it at all."
Contributor: LJG (47852615)
"Ewry and Jodie are going to Harper today to get Maude some oysters and lemons. She rested some last night and is somewhat refreshed this morn, but she can't take any nourishment to amount to anything. Can only take a little sip of water at a time. She gets so smothery when she tries to swallow. Her feet and ankles are swollen so badly dear husband and children. She told me to tell you to be good children and not ever be saucy to pa and Mother, and she wants pa to join the church and all of you children . . . . She is so weak she can scarcely talk. Last evening she said she would like to hear some singing, and we were all feeling so bad we could not sing, but Brammer's children are coming this afternoon, and they are good singers and will sing for her."
Sarah was interrupted in her letter when Maude took a turn for the worse and was unable to finish it. Her niece, Sadie Brammer Jones, added a note at about 8:30 pm that Maude was not expected to live to midnight. And finally a few minutes later she added the postscript.
"Maude breathed her last at ten minutes past twelve o'clock . . . Maude passed away just as easy as could be. She realized she was going to die, and was so patient—did not dread it at all."
Contributor: LJG (47852615)
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