Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Caldwell lost their little daughter Theresa last Friday, and the funeral was held at the house at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Father O’Driscoll officiating. She would have been five years old next Sunday and was a very bright and sweet little girl, an only child and of course the idol of her parents. Her death was a very strange one indeed, and seemed all the sadder for that reason. Monday she was playing around as well as ever, but that night she complained of a headache and at 9 o’clock the next morning had a severe convulsion. On Thursday she suffered a paralytic stroke and died in a second convulsion on Friday.

#2-11 Jan., 1905 - The Pilot - Theresa Caldwell

The funeral of little Theresa, the five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Caldwell took place from the home Sunday afternoon, Father O’Driscoll officiating. For several weeks she had been ailing, but her troubles did not take serious form till the fore part of the week when it run into spinal meningitis.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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