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- Daily Eveniing Express (Lancaster, Pa.), Friday, January 15, 1875, p. 2, col. 6:
"SINGULAR FATALITY IN A FAMILY:
On Monday the funeral took place of Mr. Samuel Bollinger, a prominent citizen of Clay township, this county, residing on the Ephrata turnpike, west of the village of Lincoln. Mr. Bollinger had attended the funeral of a grandson on Sunday, the 3d inst., at which time he was taken sick, and on the following Tuesday evening died. During the funeral of Monday last, Mrs. Bollinger was taken sick, and yesterday her condition was such as to render her recovery very doubtful, while his son and son's wife, who live upon the same farm, are also lying dangerously ill. The cause of the sudden illness of this family i a mystery to physicians. Dr. S. S. Wiest, of Schoeneck, attends the family, who called to his assistance several neighboring physicians. Owing to the sudden and alarming symptoms, poisoning is suspected.–Daily News
Lancaster Examiner and Semi-Weekly New Era (Lancaster, Pa.), February 3, 1875, p. 2, col. 8:
"The Deaths in the Bollinger Family
In a recent issue we mentioned the fact of the death of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bollinger of Clay township, Lancaster county, after a few days' illness from typhoid fever of an unusually malignent type, and the serious illness of several other family members. As various erroneous reports current in the neighborhood have appeared in other papers as to the origin of the disease, we have been requested to publish the following communication from Dr. S. S. Wiest, an experienced and highly esteemed physician of Shoeneck, Lancaster county, who attended the family"
'TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY EXAMINER: The statement that has been going the rounds of different newspapers recently that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bollinger , of Clay township, Lancaster county, died from the effect of poison, and that the people in the vicinity are aroused about the matter is erroneous, and in the strictest sense is a falsehood. There is not a bit of truth in the matter, nor was there any such rumor afloat to startle anybody previous to the publication. The nature of the disease that they died of is bilious typhoid fever. It is earnestly desired that the editors of the different papers will please copy this card, and thus revoke the false statement."
Inscription
ELIZABETH
Wife of
Samuel Bollinger
Born October 29(?) 1809
Died January 19, 1875
Aged 66 Years 2 months
& 21 days
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1809 - 1875 (65 years)
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