Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Almy, Grace February 4, 1911
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The Ionia Weekly Standard, Friday, February 10, 1911
When his mother, who left his bedside and went to the barn to do to the 
chores, did not return Saturday night, the 10-year-old son of Mrs. Grace Almy 
of Danby township desperately ill with smallpox, arose, put on his clothes, 
and went out to search for her.  He found her in a heap on the barn floor, 
nearly frozen and unable to speak.  He ran to the house and called the 
neighbors by telephone and they hurried to his aid.  The woman was carried 
into the house and a physician summoned, but she died of apoplexy before he 
arrived.  The boy was put to bed, but it is feared that the little fellow has 
overtaxed his strength and that nothing can now save his life.

Mrs. Almy, who was 34 years of age, and her little son, lived alone on their 
farm in Danby township, three miles from Portland, and the mother has been 
keeping night and day vigil at the bedside of her boy, nursing him through a 
long siege of smallpox.  It is thought that her close attention to her boy 
overtaxed the mother’s strength and brought on apoplexy.


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