Minnie Laubscher

LAUBSCHER, MESSENGER, PENNINGTON

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 9/2/2024 at 14:09:00

The Wapello Republic, Columbus Junction, IA
Thursday, May 18, 1905
Page 1

While out driving with Edward Messenger, of Mediapolis, the son of Albert Messenger, the township road boss, Miss Minnie Laubscher, the daughter of John Laubscher, a well known farmer living north of Mediapolis, died suddenly about 10 o'clock last night. The couple went driving about 8 o'clock in the evening. They had started out in a buggy on what is known as the "mile square road." Miss Laubscher is not subject to heart disease and was apparently in excellent health and spirits last evening. As they were driving along the north and south road, about a mile and a half east of Mediapolis and were about in front of John Rogers' place, Miss Laubscher was seized with a fit of coughing and then fainted apparently from fright or sudden sickness, her head falling against young Messenger's shoulder. He drove immediately to Roger's place, where she passed away almost instantly after she was taken into the house. Dr. Pennington was summoned, but he found the young woman quite dead.