Ruth Oatman

OATMAN

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 11/9/2014 at 11:56:26

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, December 27, 1910
DEATH CALLS SECOND CHILD.
Scarlet Fever Claims Little Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Oatman. Sadness is again felt in the household of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Oatman on West Second Street, where the grim reaper for the second time entered this morning and claimed Ruth the six year old daughter. Scarlet fever, the dread disease to which the four year old son, Edward, succumbed last week, was the cause of death. Death occurred at 8:30 o'clock this morning.
The funeral is to be held privately from the residence this afternoon and interment will be made in Calvary cemetery. Little Ruth attended the Douglass school and was most popular with her little mates. The funeral of ljttle Ruth Oatman, whose death occurred at 8:30 Monday, was held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Oatman, 510 West Second street. Numerous neighbors and friends paid tribute to the memory of the loveable little girl by gathering in the yard as the casket was borne to the hearse, and the esteem of the decedent was shown in the floral pieces covering the coffin. Interment was made in Calvary cemetery beside her little brother Edward, who died last week.