November 2, 1901-October 27, 1918
Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 28, 1918, page 1, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
FIRST DEATH AT CHURCH HOSPITAL
Women in Charge are Working Heroically and Ask Co-operation in Minor Ways
Women in Charge are Working Heroically and Ask Co-operation in Minor Ways
Converting the Presbyterian church into a temporary hospital is the greatest act that could possibly have been performed for the unfortunate victims of influenza.
This morning 26 patients were enrolled and this afternoon three more sufferers were received.
Nurses, and the tired women in charge of the hospital have lost all respect for hours. They are working night and day. Miss Natalie French continued in her work 30 hours at one stretch and Mrs. Harrah completed the same mission, deducting a few short intervals for sleep.
Help is wanted at the hospital. Those who can give only a few hours will be doing a work of mercy that may mean the saving of several lives.
Bessie Stratton succumbed to the dreaded influenza last evening. She was one of the first patients to be received and her condition then was so critical that it was thought she could not live though the day.
Miss Stratton was 17 years of age, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stratton, 1206 Oak street. Her mother and seven sisters are also affected with influenza and are being nursed at the church hospital. The father is not ill, but remains at the bedside of wife and children continuously. . .
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Niles Daily Sun, Monday, October 28, 1918, page 1, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
BESSIE STRATTON DIED AT HOSPITAL
Miss Bessie Stratton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stratton, East Oak street, aged 17 years, died Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church hospital after a few days' illness with pneumonia. The death of the young woman was the second in the Stratton family within a week, her brother, Howard Stratton*, having died last week of the same disease.
There are eight members of the family sick, the father being the only one of the family who has thus far escaped the disease. Mrs. Stratton and her seven surviving children are all patients at the hospital and one of the latter, Mrs. Leota Fink, is seriously ill.
The funeral announcement for Miss Stratton will be made later.
*Brother Spencer K. Stratton died Oct. 21, 1918 of influenza, see obit posted here. No obituary, death record or Silverbrook burial was found for "Howard" Stratton so it is presumed that this was an error in the obituary.
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Niles Daily Sun, Tuesday, October 29, 1918, page 4, col 3, microfilm Niles District LibraryThe funeral services for Miss Bessie Stratton will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Price chapel. Interment will occur in Silver Brook cemetery.