Letter signed Bertha R. Skinker, Wequetonsing, to husband. Bella grows worse instead of better. She needs surgical treatment. Mrs. Reber says the Deaconess Hospital on Bell near her house is very nice. A great gloom is spread over the place by the numbers of sick (at Weque). Tom McPheeters is now the worst, tonight hovering between life and death. Poor Lucy Hoblitzelle was taken yesterday with such violent pains that a premature birth was expected. Mrs. Horace Dyer (nee Edgar) is also very low with typhoid. You no doubt saw that the Edgar’s fine launch blew up and was totally destroyed. Mrs. Galt & Mrs. Thayer were on it only a few days before., [1901] Aug 18

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Skinker family correspondence, the bulk of which is between Thomas K. Skinker and his wife, Bertha Rives Skinker. The collection also contains several folders of tax receipts of Thomas Skinker dated 1839-1886. This finding aid was compiled by keying in the document descriptions on the folder covers. These document descriptions were presumably written by a Missouri Historical Society archivist soon after the collection was purchased in 1978.