Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....SPAULDING, Vivian February 27, 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00028.html#0006759 January 15, 2010, 7:49 pm The Brunswick News; Wednesday 27 February 1929; pg. 8 col. 5 SLEEPING SICKNESS IS FATAL TO CHILD—LITTLE VIVIAN SPAULDING PASSED AWAY IN JACKSONVILLE THIS MORNING. Sleeping sickness today claimed the life of Vivian Spaulding, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Spaulding, of this city. The little girl passed away in a Jacksonville hospital early this morning. The little girl had been asleep for thirteen days, or since Sunday, February 17. Previous to falling to sleep the girl had been ill for almost a week and attending physicians were at first baffled by her symptoms. Examinations were made in an effort to diagnose her illness, but not until she went to sleep and remained so for a day or two was it ascertained that she was a victim of sleeping sickness. There was no treatment for the disease, and for the thirteen days that she had been asleep nourishment had been administered. She steadily grew weaker, however, and attending physicians announced a few days ago that very little hope was held out for her recovery. Monday afternoon the parents of the little girl, in the hope that some treatment could be found, carried her to Jacksonville, where she was placed in a hospital, but physicians of that city likewise announced that there was no treatment and pronounced her condition as critical. The body of bright little Vivian was brought to Brunswick today and carried to the family home on Ellis street, where the little one lingered for nearly three weeks. Funeral arrangements had not been announced early this afternoon. [Next news article is torn away and only one column can be completely read—ALH] Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/s/spauldin9750gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb