Slavens - Walter
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 14 April 1888
“Oakland news item” - - Last Friday morning, Walter Slavens a son of Thomas Slavens, died with lung fever. The funeral services were conducted at the house at 10 o’clock Sunday by Elder Quillen. He was buried near Whitesville.
“Linden news item” – On last Sunday Rev. Thomas Quillen was called on to preach the funeral of Warren Slavens, who had the measles and lung fever in a bad form and took him off. Conrad Slaves has the sympathy of all in his loss of a son 17 years old.
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Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 14 April 1888 p 3
Walter SLAVINS, a young man 18 years of age, died at his father’s residence near Linden on April 6 of measles coupled with pneumonia. The funeral took place Sunday at the family residence, services conducted by Rev. Thomas Quillen. Interment at the cemetery near John Line’s three miles south of this city.
Note in the same paper/page there is this article – Dr. E.H. Cowan, County Health Officer, furnishes The Journal the following statistics for the county for the quarter ending March 31. Measles seems to have been the prevailing disease, showing the county has had 943 cases of this contagious disease, with probably 300 cases not reported, where a physician was not called. From the city the number of cases reported is 730, and from the county at large 240. This number is reported at the Health Office by attending physicians. The total of cases of scarletina in the county for the quarter number 60; diphtheria is 8; typhoid fever 8. In the month of March alone 625 cases of measles were reported. The births and deaths for the city during the quarter are as follows; Births – January, 12; February 8; March 15; total 34. Deaths – January, 6; February 7; March 20; total 33. For the county at large: Births, January 52; February 36; March 37; total 125. Deaths – January 20; February 21; March 22; total 63. The total number of marriages in the county during the quarter was 56 as follows: January, 19; February 16; March 21.
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Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 14 April 1888 p 8
In Memory of Walter Slavens May His Soul Rest In Peace
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled,
God in His wisdom has recalled The boon
His love had given
And though the body moulders here,
The soul is safe in Heaven Asleep in Jesus’ blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep,
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes
Asleep in Jesus, farm from thee,
Thy kindred and their graves may be,
But thine is still a blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep…
Matie Elston