Iowa Old Press
Sioux County Herald, Orange City, (Sioux), Iowa, May 18, 1882, Page
3:
Peter O. de Jong, formerly of our town but now of Lemars, lost his two
little children last week, by the dread disease diphtheria which is now
raging in Lemars. Peter and his wife have also been confined to their beds
by this disease, but are now convalescing.