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Helen Bell VanWinkle

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Helen Bell VanWinkle

Birth
Salem, Henry County, Iowa, USA
Death
29 Sep 1910 (aged 2)
Salem, Henry County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Salem, Henry County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 13
Memorial ID
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Daughter of CO and Della. Aged 2 years 4 months 6 days.



EATS 19 MATCHES DIES.
Helen Van Winkle of Salem Iowa
Lived Two Days After Swal-
lowing Poison.
Salem. Oct. 1.--Little Helen Van Winkle, the two-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Van Winkle of this place, died yesterday as the result of eating the heads of off about nineteen sulphur matches. She swallowed the poisonous heads of the matches sometime Tuesday morng, but her parents knew nothing about it at the time, and it was not until along towards evening that she complained of being sick.

Contributor:

FleshTo Bones
Daughter of CO and Della. Aged 2 years 4 months 6 days.



EATS 19 MATCHES DIES.
Helen Van Winkle of Salem Iowa
Lived Two Days After Swal-
lowing Poison.
Salem. Oct. 1.--Little Helen Van Winkle, the two-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Van Winkle of this place, died yesterday as the result of eating the heads of off about nineteen sulphur matches. She swallowed the poisonous heads of the matches sometime Tuesday morng, but her parents knew nothing about it at the time, and it was not until along towards evening that she complained of being sick.

Contributor:

FleshTo Bones


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