Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
January 20, 1923MOTHER DIED; CHILDREN AND FATHER ILL
Mrs. D. R. Drummond victim of Influenza. While her children are quarantined with Scarlet Fever.
Mrs. D. R. Drummond, died at her home 2001 Bank Street this morning at 3:00 a.m. after a brief illness of influenza culminated in pneumonia. She had been confined to her bed only since last Sunday. Her husband, D. R. Drummond and two small children, aged four and two years are ill with scarlet fever at home. The baby, six months old, has not yet contracted the disease.
Ethel Chloe Bryant was born in Scotland County, Mo., April 17, 1893 and lived there until after her marriage on March 7, 1917 to D. R. Drummond, when Mr. and Mrs. Drummond moved to Keokuk. Mrs. Drummond was a member of the Protestant M. E. Church of this city and of the Royal Neighbors Lodge.
Besides her husband and three small children, Mrs. Drummond is survived by her mother, Mrs. Jas. R. Bryant of Arbela, Mo. who was with her daughter at the time of her death and six brothers Wm. H.; James E.; Joseph W. and Leo V. Bryant of Keokuk and T. F. Bryant of Edina, Mo. and Charles E. Bryant of Memphis, Mo.
The body will be taken to Memphis, Mo. Monday, for burial.
The Memphis Reveille
Memphis, Missouri
Thursday
January 25, 1923
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Column 2Ethel Chloe Bryant, daughter of James R. and Paulina Bryant was born in Scotland County, Missouri, April 17, 1893 and departed this life January 20, 1923. In early girl hood she united with the Christian Church at Lawn Ridge and later moved her membership to the Protestant M. E. church of Keokuk and was also a member of the Royal Neighbors lodge.
March 7, 1917 she was united in marriage to Dover Drummond, when Mr. and Mrs. Drummond moved to Keokuk. She had been confined to her bed since Sunday with influenza which culminated in pneumonia. Besides her husband and three small children, Mrs. Drummond is survived by her mother, Mrs. Wm. Rathbun of Arbela, Mo., and six brothers, William H., James E., Walter J., and Vernon Bryant all of Keokuk; Frank of Edina, Mo., and Charles E. Bryant of Memphis, Mo., and a host of other relatives and friends.
