Charles P. Sherry, 1854-1896

SHERRY

Posted By: Leslie W. Saint (email)
Date: 12/31/2013 at 07:56:45

Burlington Hawk Eye July 28, 1896, p. 7

Two Died At the County Farm

Melinda Hamner and Charles P Sherry Pass to the Land Where There Are No Poor.

The inmates of the Poor Farm are suffering considerably from dysentery and summer complaint, and the caretakers are finding themselves very busy nursing the sick ones. Two deaths occured there in the past few days.

Chas. P. Sherry died at the poor farm Sunday afternoon of consumption, aged forty-two years. He was a wandering tramp who had been kept at the St. Francis hospital for a while and only sent to the county farm a few weeks ago.