Russel - Raymond
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, Saturday, Nov 21 1891
Martin Russel and wife live several miles north of this city in the vicinity of Linden. They are childless now but on October 28th had three bright and pretty children of an interesting age. It was a happy famiy and everything seemed bright and happy. Suddenly one day the children took colds and in a few hours the little five-year-old daughter, Georgie died of a pronounced case of diptheria. It was a terrible blow to the panrets but their attention was occupied in attending to their other daughter, Ella, aged nine who was also taken down with the same disease. For a week they fought death only to be vanquished in the end. The grief of the parents was terrible and the poor mother was unconscious the greater part of the time during the funeral. They had scarcely returned from burying little Ella when their third and last child, Raymond, a bright 3-year-old boy was also seized by the terrible disease. With sickened hearts the parents awaited the final and inevitable end. Death came Saturday afternoon and the burial occurred Sunday. The scene at the cemetery is said to have been harrowing in the extreme. Mrs. Russel was wild with distraction and fainted three times during the short ceremonies at the grave. The last time she could not be brought to her senses and was taken home in the hack as one dead. Mr. and Mrs. Russel are completely prostrated and take apparently no interest in their surroundings. Mr. Russel had been peculiarly unfortunate in his children by a former marriage he had 8. Seven of those and his wife died within a short time of each other and now all that is left to him of 11 children is one son, a young man grown.