Aged 6 years; gunshot wound. Son of John F. and Minnie Orr Ewing.
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There is one family in Springfield for whom the coming of Easter Sunday had only the foreboding of evil. Fears that death again would visit them on the advent of this day possessed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing yesterday afternoon when their six-year-old son, Gage Milton Ewing was picked up mortally wounded.
Time after time before, death had taken members of Mrs. Ewing's family, each time on Easter Sunday. so when the little boy died shortly after midnight this (Easter Sunday) morning, Mrs. Ewing declared it the hand of fate.
While playing with a boy yesterday afternoon, and looking at a cane gun belonging to that boy's father, Milton was accidentally shot through the stomach by a 22-calibre cartridge with which the cane was loaded. The accident happening so near the advent of the dreadful day, the family neglected to report the accident to the police, but sent for a physician.
Milton was taken to Springfield hospital, where all that could be done for him failed in its desire effect. The lad lingered until after the clock had tolled the hour of midnight, and then, as if some direful phantom still pursued the family, he breathed his last.
Mrs. Ewing made the statement that all of her relatives have died on Easter Sunday. Beside the parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, Winfred and Arthur, and one sister, Dorothy.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 3-31-1908
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There is one family in Springfield for whom the coming of Easter Sunday had only the foreboding of evil. Fears that death again would visit them on the advent of this day possessed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing yesterday afternoon when their six-year-old son, Gage Milton Ewing was picked up mortally wounded.
Time after time before, death had taken members of Mrs. Ewing's family, each time on Easter Sunday. so when the little boy died shortly after midnight this (Easter Sunday) morning, Mrs. Ewing declared it the hand of fate.
While playing with a boy yesterday afternoon, and looking at a cane gun belonging to that boy's father, Milton was accidentally shot through the stomach by a 22-calibre cartridge with which the cane was loaded. The accident happening so near the advent of the dreadful day, the family neglected to report the accident to the police, but sent for a physician.
Milton was taken to Springfield hospital, where all that could be done for him failed in its desire effect. The lad lingered until after the clock had tolled the hour of midnight, and then, as if some direful phantom still pursued the family, he breathed his last.
Mrs. Ewing made the statement that all of her relatives have died on Easter Sunday. Beside the parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, Winfred and Arthur, and one sister, Dorothy.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 3-31-1908
Aged 6 years; gunshot wound. Son of John F. and Minnie Orr Ewing.
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There is one family in Springfield for whom the coming of Easter Sunday had only the foreboding of evil. Fears that death again would visit them on the advent of this day possessed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing yesterday afternoon when their six-year-old son, Gage Milton Ewing was picked up mortally wounded.
Time after time before, death had taken members of Mrs. Ewing's family, each time on Easter Sunday. so when the little boy died shortly after midnight this (Easter Sunday) morning, Mrs. Ewing declared it the hand of fate.
While playing with a boy yesterday afternoon, and looking at a cane gun belonging to that boy's father, Milton was accidentally shot through the stomach by a 22-calibre cartridge with which the cane was loaded. The accident happening so near the advent of the dreadful day, the family neglected to report the accident to the police, but sent for a physician.
Milton was taken to Springfield hospital, where all that could be done for him failed in its desire effect. The lad lingered until after the clock had tolled the hour of midnight, and then, as if some direful phantom still pursued the family, he breathed his last.
Mrs. Ewing made the statement that all of her relatives have died on Easter Sunday. Beside the parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, Winfred and Arthur, and one sister, Dorothy.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 3-31-1908
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There is one family in Springfield for whom the coming of Easter Sunday had only the foreboding of evil. Fears that death again would visit them on the advent of this day possessed the minds of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing yesterday afternoon when their six-year-old son, Gage Milton Ewing was picked up mortally wounded.
Time after time before, death had taken members of Mrs. Ewing's family, each time on Easter Sunday. so when the little boy died shortly after midnight this (Easter Sunday) morning, Mrs. Ewing declared it the hand of fate.
While playing with a boy yesterday afternoon, and looking at a cane gun belonging to that boy's father, Milton was accidentally shot through the stomach by a 22-calibre cartridge with which the cane was loaded. The accident happening so near the advent of the dreadful day, the family neglected to report the accident to the police, but sent for a physician.
Milton was taken to Springfield hospital, where all that could be done for him failed in its desire effect. The lad lingered until after the clock had tolled the hour of midnight, and then, as if some direful phantom still pursued the family, he breathed his last.
Mrs. Ewing made the statement that all of her relatives have died on Easter Sunday. Beside the parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, Winfred and Arthur, and one sister, Dorothy.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 3-31-1908
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