In Parkman, Geauga County, four members of the family of Erastus Bierce, died within six weeks. First Frank, September 20th., aged 16; Arthur, aged 6; Mrs. Bierce next; and last a boy of 16 months -- all of typhoid fever. The knowledge of the death of the first two children was carefully kept from the mother, and yet, says the correspondent of the Geauga Republican, October 21st., she knew herself to be dying, and said "Frank and Arthur, come and take me away", and soon was gone. Were they there in her sight, waiting for her? or was her mind wandering? or does God disclose the New Jerusalam to the dying, to cheer them through the shades of Death!

source: Shelby (OH) Independent News: 05 December 1872, Vol. 5, No. 6