This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rice Ritz Hammond Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8361 Message Board Post: Fri. Feb. 17, 1899 South Edwards Feb. 10, 1899- Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Judson J. Rice started for Newton Falls with expectations with expectations of a good visit with children and grandchildren, Mr. Joseph Ritz and family. Arriving just at dark or about 6 they found little Frank very sick. At ten o'clock Dr. Wilsey of Benson Mines came and told them he could not live. At 2 in the morning Dr. O.C. Hammond, of Fine, arrived. He gave them very little hope and at half past nine Sunday morning, Feb. 5th, 1899, he passed away. He was taken sick Thursday, in the night. The Dr.'s pronounced it Laryngitis. Monday morning, Mr. McLeod the undertaker of Fine, accompanied by the father, mother, babysister and grandmother and Mr. King, a liveryman, started for South Edwards, the home of the grandparents, 28 miles distant. Tuesday other friends gathered there at 9 a.m.. After a prayer and a few remarks by Rev. Warren of Fine, and singing by the Choir of South Edwards, we bore him to the cemetery, where we had to s! ay, "Farewell Little Frankie". He was 3 years old last September. Mrs. Ira A. Hammond, was staying with her grand-daughter, Miss Bertel Rice, while Mr. and Mrs. Rice went to the Falls, but the sudden news of the death of her great-grandson prostated her and for 3 days she was not able to sit up. The little one was carried in his coffin to her room, that she might see him for the last time. She has gone to her home now, but is far from well. The afternoon of the funeral the baby sister was taken sick and Dr. Taylor, of Edwards, was called. Her disease was pronounced Tonsilities. The Dr. was here 5 times but she is now pronouced out of danger.