RODCAY, ALLEN
FREDERICK
Trouble and Death Track South Pekin Couple; Mother ill with Typhoid,
loses Father & first born (son) within few weeks.
There's a negro spiritual about "trouble, trouble, you all
ain't seen no trouble." How well that song fits today the case of
Mr. and Mrs A. D. Rodcay, of South Pekin. With joyous expectation
they awaited the arrival of their firstborn, and their joy was supreme
when the doctor's announcement came, "It's a boy!" This was about
seven weeks ago at the Pekin Hospital. Then started
trouble. Mrs. Rodcay, the mother, was taken ill with typhoid
fever. For weeks, she was ill. During the height of her
illness, Mrs. Rodcay received word that her father was ill down in
Missouri. News came that his condition was critical then that he
was dead; but she could not even think of going to stand by his grave
as he was buried. Finally, 10 days ago, Mrs. Rodcay was brought
home to South Pekin, but still too weak and exhausted from her long
illness to care for her child. The little son, meanwhile, was
doing well- a healthy looking baby of which the wan mother was very
proud. Last Saturday, to her immense delight, they brought the
baby boy home from the hospital. But the child took ill.
Yesterday his plight became desperate. Last night convulsions
seized the little fellow and racked his small body. Today about
20 minutes before noon, he died- Little Allen Frederick Rodcay,
whose seven weeks journey in this place they call life, was not enough
for him to know what it was all about.
PEKIN TIMES 02/25/1931, submitted by Desiree Burrell Rodcay
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