Breckinridge-Hancock County KyArchives Obituaries.....SIPES, James February 11, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com September 9, 2017, 9:53 pm Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, February 14,1900 Page 5, Information taken from the "Owensboro Messenger" Newspaper. DEATH -- DIED OF MENINGITIS Mr. James SIPES of Lewisport (Hancock County), Ky., expires after a short illness. James SIPES died Sunday morning, February 11, 1900, at his home about a mile below Lewisport of meningitis. He was sick only a few days. Only a week before, his father died of pneumonia. Young SIPES was about 20 years old, an industrious young farmer, and was well-known and highly respected. This is the only known case of meningitis that has occurred in that vicinity. Additional Comments: File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/s/sipes6420gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/