This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ward Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2265 Message Board Post: New Plymouth Sentinel New Plymouth, Idaho Thursday, December 21, 1922 Stranger Dies of Mysterious Disease Ruben Ward, a man forty years of age who had been employed on the Ed. Strohbehm ranch near New Plymouth, died Friday morning in the Ontario hospital of a mysterous disease, which tests may prove to be rabies. Mr. Ward was found in bed with his clothes on at the Strohbehm ranch Monday afternoon of last week by Ralph Hall. He had done the farm chores the evening before but did not seem to remember much about what he had done. He was brought to the hotel in New Plymouth Monday night and was taken from there to the hosptial at Ontario Tuesday. A brother living in Oregon was notified but was unable to get to the hospital before death came. Mr. Ward lost his wife and a child twelve years ago. He leaves a daughter eighteen years of age who lives with her grand parents in Tennessee. Note: Headstone shows name as Rufus F. ch