MRS. AFFORD
SOLIPHONE
MAY 30 , 1902
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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AN ILL - FATED HOUSEHOLD
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ONE BY ONE THE CLUTCHES OF DEATH SILENTLY STEALS THEM AWAY
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MRS. AFFORD , NEAR THE WATER WORKS POWER HOUSE , IS DEAD , AFTER A PROLONGED ILLNESS OF A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES , AND THE REMAINS HAVE BEEN PLACED AT THE SIDE OF HER HUSBAND IN A GRAVE AT THE CITY CEMETERY {LINWOOD} . THE HUSBAND DIED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.
SUDDENLY REDUCED TO PENURY FROM COMFORTABLE SURROUNDINGS - AN ESTATE VALUED AT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS , FATHER AND MOTHER HAVE DIED WITHIN A VERY BRIEF PERIOD , LEAVING SEVERAL CHILDREN HEART BROKEN TO FACE THE BATTLES OF LIFE . BUT SAD MISFORTUNE YET LINGERS IN THE ILL-FATED HOME A CHILD OF TENDER AGE , WAS TAKEN ILL A FEW DAYS AGO AND IS NOW IN A PRECARIOUS CONDITION , AND WILL PERHAPS YIELD TO THE FATE THAT HAS BEFALLEN ITS MOTHER AND FATHER . AN ELDER SISTER HAS BEEN SENT TO THEIR FORMER HOME AT MALDEN , MISSOURI , WHERE THE FAMILY WAS SO COMFORTABLY SITUATED ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO , AND WHERE THEY ENJOYED THE BLESSINGS OF GOOD HEALTH. ANOTHER CHILD IS AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING ONE HERE AND WILL LIKELY BE SENT TO THE HOME OF HIS LITTLE SISTER AT MALDEN.
THE PARTICULARS DETAILING THE SAD MISFORTUNES OF THE FAMILY WERE PUBLISHED IN THE SOLIPHONE SEVERAL DAYS AGO. IT WILL BE REMEMBERED THAT MR. AFFORD MOVED HIS FAMILY TO PARAGOULD A FEW WEEKS AGO , SEARCHING FOR WORK THAT HE MIGHT PROVIDE THE COMFORTS OF LIFE FOR THEM. HE HAD BEEN HERE ONLY A FEW DAYS WHEN HE WAS TAKEN VIOLENTLY ILL AND DIED . THIS SAD INCIDENT WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY THE PROTRACTED AND FATAL ILLNESS OF HIS WIFE , AND NOW THE THIRD MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD LINGERS IN THE VERY SHADOW OF DEATH. IT WILL ALSO BE REMEMBERED THAT THE FAMILY WAS REDUCED TO POVERTY BY A TECHNICAL ERROR IN A DEAL BY WHICH MRS. AFFORD'S INHERITANCE OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY FROM HER PARENTS WAS ENTIRELY LOST. THE PROPERTY WAS OWNED AT MALDEN.