Mildred Thomas |
| Posted 2026-04-15 by Jo Brown |
| CHILD IN PARTY EASTWARD BOUND DIES IN TUCSON TUCSON. Oct. 31. "Please let me take my dead baby with me," tearfully pleaded Mrs. Mary Thomas last Sunday with Arturo Carillo, who had been called to St. Mary's hospital to bury 3 year old Mildred Thomas. The child had succumbed to diphtheria. Mr. Carillo gently explained to the distracted woman that he had no choice in the matter, but, as was prescribed by law, the little one must be buried forthwith. Mrs. Thomas, accompanied by her brother and two children, was driving overland from Indio, Calif-, to join her husband in Abernathe, Tex. She was fleeing from an epidemic of diphtheria, which is said to have the city of lndio in its clutches. It was In the hope of preventing her children contracting the disease that she left Indio. Mildred began to show signs of having the disease when the family reached Tucson. She became so ill that It became necessary to stop over here and place the child in the hospital. Her death followed. Another and younger child was beginning to show unmistakable signs of having the disease when the family left yesterday morning to continue the trip to Abernathe. Tombstone Epitaph November 5, 1922 |
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