Jacob, Martin & Ole Langland (sons of Ole "O. C." Langland)

LANGLAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/23/2010 at 20:23:49

From Story County Watchman June 4, 1880

Roland Sparks,

Diptheria is still lingering in this vicinity. Mr. O. C. Langland has lost three bright little boys by it within a week, two of them dying only a few hours apart.

Old settlers say they never saw so many deaths here in so short a time, there have been five funerals in one week.