The Weekly Clarion

Jackson, Mississippi

September 12, 1872

Some three weeks since Col. P. S. Layton of Meridian brought his family consisting of his wife and five children to the residence of his father-in-law Dr. Wm. Reber who lives a mile east of Brandon with his widow daughter, Mrs. Annie E. Bourne.  About a week after their arrival Mrs. Layton and four of her children and four of Mrs. Bourne's children, two daughters of Mrs. Britt, and a negro girl were taken ill with dyptheria (sic).  Col. Layton's little girl, Mabel, died on the 20th of August, Annie Bourne on the 24th, Pierre Soule Layton on the 25th, Willie Bourne on the 28th, Eula Bourne on the 30th, and Fannie Bourne on September 1.

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