Wells - child of William - 1874
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Saturday, 19 December 1874
A child of Wm Wells, living a few miles southwest of Colfax, died last Sunday evening of what the doctors call spina bifida, or a head on the spine. A postmortem examination was held by Drs. Ensminger and W. D. McClelland on Monday, revealing the presence of a tumor filled with brain matter and containing five quarts of fluid matter. The tumor weighted 17 ½ pounds and the total weight of the child was only 29 pounds. The child was about 17 months old.