James Franklin Jensen 1897-1898

JENSEN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/9/2010 at 00:54:25

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jensen have the sympathy of friends in the death of their baby Friday of cholera infantum. Funeral services were held from the residence Saturday afternoon and the little body laid to rest in the Oak Hill cemetery. (Emmet County Republican, Estherville, IA, September 8, 1898)

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jensen have been called upon the past week to mourn the loss of their youngest child, Franklin James [per cemetery records, James Franklin]. He died Friday, September 2nd, of ileo colitis at the age of eleven months and sixteen days, after an illness of only a few days. Funeral services were held Saturday from the family residence ant the remains interred in the West Side Cemetery. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community. (Estherville Democrat, Estherville, IA, September 7, 1898)