news from Ancora, 1883
from the Hunterdon Democrat, 15 May 1883:
A sad story comes from Ancora, a little village on the line of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, in Camden county. A six-year-old daughter of Edward Fowler, a prominent resident of Ancora, was taken sick a week ago with smallpox. The father became alarmed and sent for the wife, who had been separated from him for over five years, to return to her home and nurse her child. The mother had only a short time before recovered from an attack of smallpox. She came to the bedside of her suffering daughter, and there did all that a fond mother could. The disease assumed a complicated form, and Dr. Junkey, of Hammonton, it is said, was telegraphed for, but for some unknown reason failed to respond to the summons... On Wednesday night the child died. As there was not an undertaker within several miles the parents set at work to prepare the body for burial themselves... By the pale light of the moon the coffin was lowered into the grave.
A sad story comes from Ancora, a little village on the line of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, in Camden county. A six-year-old daughter of Edward Fowler, a prominent resident of Ancora, was taken sick a week ago with smallpox. The father became alarmed and sent for the wife, who had been separated from him for over five years, to return to her home and nurse her child. The mother had only a short time before recovered from an attack of smallpox. She came to the bedside of her suffering daughter, and there did all that a fond mother could. The disease assumed a complicated form, and Dr. Junkey, of Hammonton, it is said, was telegraphed for, but for some unknown reason failed to respond to the summons... On Wednesday night the child died. As there was not an undertaker within several miles the parents set at work to prepare the body for burial themselves... By the pale light of the moon the coffin was lowered into the grave.
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