Washington County RI  Archives Obituaries.....Watrous, Nellie M.  October 21, 1896
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The Westerly Daily Sun, Wednesday, October 21, 1896, Page 4, Column 3, 3/4th Way Down the Column, under "DIED"
WATROUS-In Westerly, Oct. 20, 1896, NELLIE M. WATROUS, wife of Joel Watrous, 
aged 22 years 

Additional Comments:
Before her death of Purperal Fever* Nellie gave birth to her daughter Florence 
Ruth Watrous, on the 14th of the same month.

Online sources state that she was born January 16, 1874 in Charleston, 
Washington  County, Rhode Island. 

Nellie's parents were Isaac Stillman Prosser and Pheobe Watrous. 

Nellie M. Prosser and Joel Watrous married in Groton, Connecticut on September 
16,1893. 

In Nellie's school years, she attended (with her many Prosser syblings) the 
Bell School House, now a restored small building on 5 Richmond Townhouse Road, 
Richmond, Rhode Island in Richmond, Washington County.  At this time I am not 
sure where she was buiried, but both of her parents Isaac Stillman Prosser and 
Pheobe Watrous were buried at the Quakertown Cemetery, 1.1 miles northbound on 
Colonel Ledyard Highway( from Route 184, Groton) in Ledyard, Connecticut, and 
since her fatther Isaac perished just 11 months before Nellie, it is highly 
likely that Nellie too may have been buried there. After Nellie's death her 
widowed husband Joel Watrous,  married Helen Merrill on August 21, 1899, but on 
February 15, 1900, he perished from pneumonia while living Groton, Connecticut. 

He was buried at the same Ledyard Union Cemetery, but his gravemarker is either 
not present, or simply invisible do to submersion in the soil.



*"Puerperal fever or childbed fever in the 18th and 19th centuries affected, on 
average, 6 to 9 women in every 1000 deliveries, killing 2 to 3 of them with 
peritonitis or septicemia. It was the single most common cause of maternal 
mortality, accounting for about half of all deaths related to childbirth, and 
was second only to tuberculosis in killing women of childbearing age. A rough 
estimate is that about 250,000-500,000 died from puerperal fever in the 1700s 
and 1800s in England and Wales alone." 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerperal_fever

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