Moultrie County IL Archives News.....Entire Family is Doomed [ Munson ] May 18, 1901
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The Daily Herald [Chicago IL] May 18, 1901
A strange fatality hovers over the family of George Munson, a prominent farmer 
of Whitley Creek. Within eight years six of his twelve children have died. 
They all appeared to enjoy robust health, but between the ages of 12 and 16 
death came suddenly to each. The fate that greets each child when it reaches 
the proscribed period had prostrated the parents. A year ago a daughter, while 
attending the Wild Cat district school, fell over into the aisle and expired. 
The other afternoon at recess her 12-year-old brother, Newton, dropped on the 
same spot and also died. The parents are normally healthy, and, while 
physicians nominally ascribe the deaths to heart failure, they are unable to 
offer any solution of the mystery.

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