mbhenty wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:07 pm
They didn't live in fall river so we can't blame Lizzie.
Now, that is funny!
Thanks, MB. I have enjoyed this thread very much.
It’s true, we are interested in the strange and morbid, but I think it is the mysteries that really draw us in. Your friend, John, has a good point there! However, I think you have a ways to go before you have enough useless information in your brain to complete a wall as big as The Great Wall of China, and I know I do, too.
During my research I did run across this information on Dr. T. J. Weed:
T. J. WEED, M. D., County Auditor, immigrated to Kansas, July 20, 1856, and making Topeka his headquarters, raised a company and served under Gen. Lane until November of the same year: then he returned to Illinois and remained until 1857. He then came again to Kansas and located in Leavenworth, where he resided and practiced medicine until he entered the United States service in June, 1861, as Adjutant General of a Kansas Brigade. In December of the same year, he was assigned a position on Gen. McClellan's staff, with the rank of Major. During the summer of 1863, he acted as Assistant Adjutant General in the recruiting service. And he also served with Gens. Fremont, Blunt, Curtis, and Schofield. He was mustered out September 12, 1865, being at the close of the war, Chief of Gen. Curtis' staff in the Department of the Northwest. After leaving the service, he engaged in general insurance business in Leavenworth, and has been County Auditor for the last four years. He is a native of Auburn, Cavuga Co., N. Y., where he was born March 8, 1828. At the age of sixteen, he went to Pennsylvania, and remained in that State until he was twenty-five. He then removed to Wilmington, N. C., where he practiced medicine two years; then removed to Germantown, Pa., and stayed one year; and then to Bloomington, Ill., where he remained until he came to Kansas. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and K. of H.
Source:
http://tinyurl.com/yyl2n8hp
I know that information doesn’t tell us why 5 of his children died in such a short period of time, but I found it interesting anyway. I think you have some good reasons for why the 5 Weed children died at such young ages and so close together.
I think the thing that intrigues me most about the death of those 5 children is the fact that their father was a doctor. I wonder if their deaths could have been due to SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome). The term sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was first proposed in 1969, ( Source:
http://tinyurl.com/y4c6mvh5 ), so, I think SIDS is a very good possibility for the cause of death in the 5 Weed children. But as you stated, we are probably never going to know the real cause of their deaths.