This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RICHTER, WALKER Classification: Birth Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/25.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, May 18, 1916 [same date for both articles] TRIPLETT BOYS ARE THE RESULT OF AN OPERATION >From Wednesday’s Daily. Last evening Dr. E.W. COOK was called to Murray in consultation with Dr. J.F. BRENDEL of that place in the case of Mrs. Herman RICHTER, residing west of Murray, and the patient was found to be suffering greatly, and it was deemed necessary to take her at once to the St. Joseph hospital in Omaha for an operation in order to save her life, as the condition of Mrs. Richter was very critical. As soon as possible after reaching the hospital a Caesarian operation was performed, which seems to have been very successful, and the three baby boys were born, while the mother, at last reports, was doing nicely and everything pointed to a most successful operation in every way. MRS. ANNA RICHTER PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Anna RICHTER of near Murray, who underwent a Caesarean operation at the St. Joseph hospital in Omaha Tuesday night, passed away last evening at eleven o’clock, after a brave fight for life to care for the three little sons who were born to her and for whom she had laid down her life. The serious condition of Mrs. Richter on reaching the hospital early Wednesday morning after being brought by an auto from her home at Murray made the operation necessary at once, as she was suffering from convulsions. This is the first time in the history of Omaha surgery, where such an operation was performed that triplets were born. The children are reported as doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Mrs. Richter had no time to be prepared for the operation on reaching the hospital, but cheerfully submitted to the ordeal insisting that she was ready and willing to withstand it. Dr. C.C. ALLISON and Dr. A.L. DERMMODY performed the operation. Mrs. Richter was twenty-three years of age and was married at Carrolton, Mo., to Herman Richter two years ago, and they have made their home on the farm west of Murray a greater part of the time since their marriage. Her husband and mother, Mrs. Emma WALKER were by her bedside at the time she passed away.