Ross WALKER has a brush with smallpox

WALKER, HEACOCK

Posted By: Joey Stark - Jefferson Co. Volunteer
Date: 2/25/2006 at 17:50:28

"Brighton Enterprise", Sat., June 4, 1910, Pg. 1, Col. 3

Elder C. L. WALKER's son, Ross WALKER, a young man of 26, is foreman of the Council Bluffs "Nonpareil's" composing room.... while working at the printing business at Cedar Falls, in company with Guy R. HEACOCK, Ross WALKER caught the smallpox and was bundled off to the pesthouse and kept there for 30 days.

Guy HEACOCK wrote to Mrs. WALKER at Bright (sic) every day and reported her son's condition to her, and he paid him such faithful attention that when a new boy was born to her about that time she named him Guy out of gratitude.

[Also posted to the Jefferson, Pottawattamie, and Washington Counties' Documents boards]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).