From: KyArchives Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 3:38 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Oller.Ella.1904.Breckinridge-Ohio-Hancock.OBIT Ella OLLER February 1904 Breckinridge-Ohio-Hancock County KyArchives Obituaries Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday, March 30, 1904 OBITUARY Page 3, Column 3 A SAD STORY IS THIS ONE -- Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County) March 24, 1904 (Special) Five motherless children will today be transported from the Branch Hospital in Lick Run to Glendeane (spelled Glen Dean today), Kentucky, to an uncle. With their departure an incident that was tragic, will be closed. On February 7, 1904, with her infant Lillian, and 12 year old William, Mrs. Ella OLLER was removed to the City Hospital from their home at 1414 Walnut Street, (Cincinnati). After a careful examination it was declared they were suffering from a highly contagious disease, and their isolation in the Branch Hospital annex was ordered. On the following day, the remaining members of the family, James, Jennie, Annie, and Clarence, the oldest of whom was 10 and the youngest 4 years old, were sent to join them at the annex. Then came a counter order, and it was declared that some of the family were only suffering from chicken pox, and they returned to the main institution. However, there it was declared that, having been exposed to the contagion, they would be compelled to go back to isolation, and they went. About two weeks afterward, the Mother, the infant, Lillian, died within 24 hours of each other. Strange to say, the death certificates in both cases gave the cause of death as Scarlet Fever, and the ingenious explanation was afterward given that all were afflicted with the same contagious disease, but that they contracted scarlet fever, while in the main hospital, which obligingly waited to manifest itself until the first disease had made its appearance. The remaining members of the family have completely recovered, and Mayor FLEISCHMANN yesterday issued a pass for them to Glendeane, Ky. The mother and infant child rest in Potter's Field, while the father of the little ones is a hopeless lunatic in a Kentucky Asylum. Submitted by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/