Consumption

February 16, 1887 — Miss Fannie, daughter of Mr. Morgan Skelton, who lives near town, aged 24 years, died at 5 o’clock last Monday morning, after a lingering illness of several months from consumption. She makes the fourth child that Mr. S. has been called to mourn in his family from that terrible disease within the past 15 months — first Willie, then Huber, then Frank, and now his eldest daughter.

~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier

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