A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > New York http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=708 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=46271 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: New York Evening Journal Article Date: November 4 1898 Article Description: Died Together, Although He Gave His Life For Her. Wife Expires Soon After Husband, Who Contracted the Disease by Nursing Her. Article Text: Three orphans in a tenement house at No. 120 Seventh avenue, the oldest fifteen, are mourning the death of their parents only a few hours apart. Edward TIBBETTS, their father, died as a result of his devotion to his invalid wife. All his spare moments from his work he spent at her bedside. She had consumption. He contracted the disease from her and breathed his last in Bellevue Hospital Wednesday. His wife was informed of his death yesterday. Calling her children about her she ______ almost happily and said she would soon follow him. She died last night. TIBBETTS was a driver employed by a big wholesale business down town. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com