Washington County Obituaries

Sumner B. Mowry, 14 of Peacedale Dies at Father's Home.

Providence, oct. 17.--The fifth death from the typhoid fever epidemic that broke out in the Rhode Island delegation after the return from Put-In-Bay occurred Saturday, when Sumner Brown Mowry, son of ex-Senator Sumner Mowry, died at his home in Peacedale.

The boy was a little over 14 years old, having been born Aug 28, 1899. He accompanied his father and mother on the trip to the Ferry celebration at Put-In-Bay, and travelled on the steamer Rochester, which is glamed for the epidemic of typhoid fever that has been raging in this state.

He was taken sick with the disease almost immediately after his return to his father's house, and had passed through the worst stage, according to the report of the attending physicians. The fever had left him, and his recovery was regarded as being a matter of a few days, when his death occurred on Saturday afternoon.

The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock from the family home, Columbus street, Peacedale, and burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Wakefield.

Source: Pawtucket Times, October 27, 1913, Transcribed by C. Anthony