The infant child of Henry Knecht, of Avilla township, a bright little boy aged about four months, died last Sunday evening from bowel trouble. The child died very suddenly, as it was not seriously sick until Sunday morning.Rev. E. E. Robbins conducted the funeral services from the family residence on Monday. The burial took place in the Avilla cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Knecht have the sympathy of many friends in this hour of affliction.
Anna W. (Darnell) Knecht: "After an illness extending through several weeks, the result of a paralytic stroke, following an attack of heart trouble, and of hemorrhage of the brain, with complications, Mrs. Henry Knecht died at 10 o'clock a.m. on last Sunday, July 1, 1920, at her home in Avilla-tp." Obituary published in The Western Star, July 16, 1920.
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