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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 9, 1887
pg. 5

DIED ON THE TRAIN
We are called upon to chronicle the sad termination to an enjoyable pleasure trip in the case of Mrs. Walter Ellsworth, who arrived in the city from the north Wednesday. Mrs. Ellsworth and little child had been spending the summer with Mrs. Wm. Reid, Mrs. Ellsworth's mother, and on Sunday set out for home. Mrs. Reid, accompanying her daughter with the intention of spending the winter in Denison. The baby had been ill but had very materially recovered, and was pronounced by the doctor as in no danger of getting worse on the journey, it being his opinion rather that the change of air would do it good. Shortly after leaving St. Louis, however, it became violently sick and contiued to get worse until, at 9 p.m. Tuesday evening, it yielded up its little life as the train was pulling in to Clinton.
Mr. Ellsworth had been telegraphed from Sedalia the intelligence of his child's serious illness and upon the arrival of the train in Parsons, he was notified by wire of its death. He took the midnight express and met his wife in the Territory at Eufaula, from which point he accompanied her home arriving here Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The funeral, which was attended an unusually large number of friends, took place from the residence of the parents, on Houston avenue, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The remains were interred at Oakwood Cemetery. The name of the little unfortunate was Eugenia Fay; its age 7 months. It is only a little over a year since Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth lost their first born from the same cause - difficulty in teething.