OBIT: Bernadetta SANDERS, 1907, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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A Child’s Terrible Sufferings.

Gettysburg, June 14. – The death of little Bernadetta Sanders, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Mausice Sanders, of near this place, occurred on the 9th inst., aged 
two years.

The child was a terrible sufferer from cancer of the face.  On the 7th of May, 
1906, when but a year old, the infant was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, 
Baltimore, where her right eye was removed.  A small growth had appeared on the 
pupil which grew so rapidly that it was necessary to remove the entire eye.  But 
it was not long before another operation was found necessary, and before the 
child was two years old six operations were performed with the hope of saving 
the child’s life.  The cancerous growth made such a rapid progress, however, 
that the surgeon’s knife was powerless for beneficial results.  At the time of 
death the disease had spread down over the face covering half the mouth so that 
no nourishment except in liquid form was taken by the child for over two weeks 
prior to her death.

The little girl was a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Smith, of near 
Littlestown, and is survived by her sorrowing parents and four little brothers.

New Oxford Item, June 20, 1907