Lundt, Boy Child died 1903

LUNDT

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 10/16/2016 at 21:49:45

Elkader Register, Thur., 5 Nov. 1903. Local News column. From the Guttenberg Press.

Louis Lundt was called to Elkport Sunday by a telephone message which announced that his three-year-old son had been seriously burned. His wife, with the children, are staying with her parents near Elkport, and Sunday forenoon about eleven o'clock one of the members of the family started the fire in an old heating stove in the dooryard around which the little ones were amusing themselves. The little fellow's clothing caught fire, but before the clothing could be stripped from him, his little form was badly burned. Hopes were entertained for a time that his life might be saved, but death relieved the little one's suffering at one o'clock Monday afternoon. One hour and a half before the child's death he got out of bed and said, "Papa, I'm going home with you." That expression coming from an infant, and under those circumstances, would almost cause tears from a person who possessed a heart of stone. The child was buried in the city cemetery here Wednesday.