SAD. The chocking of little "Bunny" the eldest and only boy of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spencer, on Monday of last week, resulting in his death Tuesday night, was a severe blow to its doating father and mother, grandparents and friends of the family. The child was at play with some hickory nuts upon the floor while its mother was about her washing, and began to choke. Its mother thought it must have gotten a piece of shell into its throat and took it up and made very effort to recover it but without avail. The child was taken to Dr. Bulson who could succeed no better but prescribed some nausceating medicine, hope to effect relief in that direction. The child was taken home and began growing weaker. In the morning the doctor was called, and viewing the hopelessness of the case, concluded as the only means to save the child's life would be a surgical operation, and Dr. Gaben of Madison was summoned by telegraph to assist in the operation. The child was chloroformed and laid upon a table, but the moment the incision was made in its throat the air rushed in, driving the obstruction down upon its lungs and in a moment the child was dead.

The funeral services were held at the house Thursday, and the hope and pride of fond parents' heart was laid away in cemetery of a cold, bleak December day,never to be forgotten by that young mother and doating father while memory shall last.

January 4, 1882, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin