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MARSHVILLE – JOSEPH BAILEY FAMILY
[Welland Telegraph, 23 January 1891]
Mr. Joseph Bailey, who lives on the feeder near here, has the sympathy of his friends in the unusually heavy affliction that has befallen him in the loss of three of his children within the short space of a week. An epidemic of measles has been prevailing there for the past month or so, which early found its way into Mr. Bailey’s home and chose its victims from among the members of his young family. The little ones were so full of life and activity that they could not be kept within the restraints required for the successful treatment of the disease, consequently the measles struck in, and, as if to render the physician’s task still harder, whooping cough supervened. At this juncture the neighbors became aware of the serious state of affairs, and, at the risk of the carrying the infection into their own homes, came to the relief of the over worked father in such kindly offices as they could render., but they were too late to stay the fatal blow in at least three cases. The first victim yielded up the struggle soon after 9 o’clock on Monday morning Jan. 12th, and his burial at Welland was arranged for Wednesday, but when the funeral arrived at the church on that day the hearse contained two coffins instead of one, another child having died during the night. Friends were now thoroughly aroused and redoubled their efforts, and tender nursing was added to the physician’s skill. Mary Elizabeth was now the subject of their anxiety, and as her case was about past hope, clerical baptism was administered. However, the fears for her were only too fully realized, and the little sufferer passed away early on Sunday morning to join her two little brothers in that Kingdom of which she was an inheritor as being a member of Christ and a child of God.
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