Hide Article Text (OCR)
nrm*. sometimes came aown to mo taverns at Alton and got very drunk. While in Alton one morning he heard n man died from cholera In hla Intoxicated atate nothin* seemed so important in the world »o him as his desire to ascertain whether it was true that when a person died from rholera he turned black. He went to the house where the cholera victim lay, and satisfied himself, but he did not live long enough to make any record of it. That night he was dead himself and the next morning his wife was dead. Both were buried in the cemetery. Later relativ?* of the couple came to Alton, took the two orphaned children and conveyed them back east.Mrs. Kennedy visited Riverview Park. Though near ninety-one, the aged woman could see with her one good eye for a long distance. From the bluff top she could see the Missouri Valley Construction Co. derrick at Hop Hollow, and could discern objects a long distance away on the river. She was entranced with the beautiful view from the bluff top at Riverview Park, and said it was the first time she had looked from that place since she was a child. In the days when she was living In Alton, between seventy and eighty years ago. she says Alton was sparsely settled, and there was nothing at all on the bluffs but trees and holes. She was
Newspaper Details
Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Sep 25, 1916
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Hayner P.
IL, USA 09 Nov 2023
Other Publications Near Alton, Illinois
Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton Observer
Labor World
Alton Weekly Telegraph
Alton Telegraph and Democratic review
