Death: accidental poisoning∼Another heartrending tragedy has occurred to darken the hearthstone of one of Missoula's most prominent and respected families. A widowed mother, already sorely stricken in the recent cruel and sudden death of a loved son, has been once more bereaved in the loss of a daughter; a young girl just budding into womanhood and the oldest daughter of the family.
Helen Higgins, aged 14 years, died Friday night at a few minutes after 10 o'clock from a dose of strychnine take through mistake...….
...Helena Eudora Higgins was the eldest daughter of the late C.O. Higgins. She would have been fifteen years old on November 16 next. She was a bright, lovable girl, of a happy and affectionate disposition, and the suddenness of her death has prostrated her mother. The funeral will take place next Sunday at 1 o'clock, and the body will be interred in the family burying ground in South Missoula
(Missoula Weekly Gazette Juy 29, 1891)
There is more in the actual news story about circumstances of her death.
Helen Higgins, aged 14 years, died Friday night at a few minutes after 10 o'clock from a dose of strychnine take through mistake...….
...Helena Eudora Higgins was the eldest daughter of the late C.O. Higgins. She would have been fifteen years old on November 16 next. She was a bright, lovable girl, of a happy and affectionate disposition, and the suddenness of her death has prostrated her mother. The funeral will take place next Sunday at 1 o'clock, and the body will be interred in the family burying ground in South Missoula
(Missoula Weekly Gazette Juy 29, 1891)
There is more in the actual news story about circumstances of her death.
Death: accidental poisoning∼Another heartrending tragedy has occurred to darken the hearthstone of one of Missoula's most prominent and respected families. A widowed mother, already sorely stricken in the recent cruel and sudden death of a loved son, has been once more bereaved in the loss of a daughter; a young girl just budding into womanhood and the oldest daughter of the family.
Helen Higgins, aged 14 years, died Friday night at a few minutes after 10 o'clock from a dose of strychnine take through mistake...….
...Helena Eudora Higgins was the eldest daughter of the late C.O. Higgins. She would have been fifteen years old on November 16 next. She was a bright, lovable girl, of a happy and affectionate disposition, and the suddenness of her death has prostrated her mother. The funeral will take place next Sunday at 1 o'clock, and the body will be interred in the family burying ground in South Missoula
(Missoula Weekly Gazette Juy 29, 1891)
There is more in the actual news story about circumstances of her death.
Helen Higgins, aged 14 years, died Friday night at a few minutes after 10 o'clock from a dose of strychnine take through mistake...….
...Helena Eudora Higgins was the eldest daughter of the late C.O. Higgins. She would have been fifteen years old on November 16 next. She was a bright, lovable girl, of a happy and affectionate disposition, and the suddenness of her death has prostrated her mother. The funeral will take place next Sunday at 1 o'clock, and the body will be interred in the family burying ground in South Missoula
(Missoula Weekly Gazette Juy 29, 1891)
There is more in the actual news story about circumstances of her death.
Gravesite Details
Age 14
