WASHBURNE, Bessie Harvey - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana September 12, 1924

O.W. Harvey was called to Attica on Monday by the critical  illness of his sister, Mrs. Hubert Washburne, who died on Tuesday  morning. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey attended the funeral on Thursday.  Mrs. Washburne was seized about five months ago with a mysterious  malady which was at first diagnosed as rheumatism. She shortly  sank into a stupor and slept for six weeks. She then wakened and  showed some improvement but has had several recurrences of  sleeping, ending with her death. The physicians pronounced it  "sleeping sickness," a very rare disease in this country, though  common in Africa. - transcribed by kbz