A Bad Week in March for the George Lincoln Family

Scarlet fever stole their children in 1896

Alicia M Prater, PhD
GenTales
Published in
4 min readApr 6, 2024

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GW Lincoln his wife Tillie
Gravestone inscription. Hepler, Kansas.

By March of 1896, George Lincoln of Mills Co., Iowa, and his wife Tillie had four children. By April, they had only one. The story is etched in three small headstones in Pacific City, Iowa.

The Lincoln family of Mills County

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Alicia M Prater, PhD
GenTales

Scientific editor with Medical Science PhD, former researcher and lecturer, long-time writer and genealogist