From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <iggy29@scican.net>

To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>

Subject: DEATH OF MRS. SPARLING OF THE POOR FARM.

Date: Saturday, May 19, 2001 9:44 PM

Decatur County Journal

March 25, l897

MRS. SPARLING, an inmate of the poor farm, died last week, aged more

than eighty years, of pneumonia. A number of the inmates have been

affected with this disease and la grippe, but are now improving.

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Copied by Nancee; I hope she belongs to one of you looking for ancestors

that lived at the poor farm. They aren't often listed

in the newspaper.