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Author: Adina_SDyer
Surnames: Fulks, Rittenour
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I am not related and have other information on the family.
The Somerset Herald, pg. 2
January 30, 1884
Somerset, Pennsylvania
SIX DEATHS FROM MILK SICKNESS
LAFAYETTE, January 24.-- Ten weeks ago several members of the family of Benjamin Fulks, a
farmer in Shelby Township, Tippecanoe County, this state, were taken ill with a strange
malady, attended with extreme nervousness. The family consisted of Mr. Fulks, his wife,
six children and a young lady friend and member of the family. They had all used freely
the milk and butter of the cows on the farm.
The first death was of a daughter nine years od, which was followed by the deaths of a
son, aged thirteen, and a daughter, aged eleven. The death of Miss Rettenour, a young
lady living with the family, followed next. Then an infant child died and on last Tuesday
night Mr. Fulks died, Mrs. Fulks now lying at the point of death. The facts have just
commence attracting attention here, since the physicians that have attended the patients
pronounce their malady milk sickness.
Possible family mentioned in the obituary:
1880 Census of White County, West Point Township, Indiana, shows the following family:
(this township is located just north of Shelby Township, Tippecanoe County).
Page 33, Enumeration District 183
Household number 294, Family number 326
Fulks, Benjamin - w/m - 33 - farmer - b/p: VA - fa: VA - mo: VA
Fulks, Mary C. - w/f - 34 - wife - housekeeping - b/p: IN - fa.: OH - mo: OH
Fulks, Frank - w/m - 9 - son - b/p: IN - fa: VA - mo: IN
Fulks, Bessie - w/f - 7 - daughter - b/p: IN - fa. VA - mo: IN
Fulks, Maggie - w/f - 4 - daughter - b/p: IN - fa: VA - mo: IN
Fulks, Selina - w/f - 2 - daughter - b/p: IN - fa: VA - mo: IN
Fulks, Ellie - w/f - 1/12 - month born: May - daughter - b/p: IN - fa: VA - mo: IN
Ritenour, Mary - w/f - 24 - sister-in-law - b/p: IN - fa: IN - mo: IN
Ritenour, Fannie J. - w/f - 4 - niece - b/p: IN - fa: VA - mo: IN
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