Lydia Lundwall

LUNDWALL, HELVERSON

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 3/16/2024 at 15:14:09

The Wapello Republic, Wapello, Iowa
Thursday, October 18, 1894
Page 4

Last Friday night, Oct. 12th, the death angel released the spirit of James Helverson, one of the old settlers of this county, whose home was in the south part of this township. For several years Mr. Helverson had suffered with a cancer on his lower lip, and despite all the efforts to get rid f it by medical skill it continued to eat his life away, so that for several months past his has been a living death. Everything, no doubt, was done to alleviate his sufferings, but he has for along time been a burden to himself, as well as an almost unbearable charge to his family so that death came as a welcome release. He actually starved to death, as for weeks he had been unable to take food in the usual way, the cancer having eaten away his lips and into his throat.

That same night the swift angel of death entered the home of the daughter of Mrs. Helverson, who had been sick for about two weeks with typhoid fever and called her away. Mrs. Lydia Lundwall was in the bloom of womanhood when the dread disease attacked her. Besides her husband, Charles, she leaves a six months old babe, without a mother's care. The funeral of both husband and daughter occurred together on Sunday.