LADD - CLARA E. - 1894, Presque Isle

March 15, 1894
Bar Harbor Record

A very sad and distressing funeral was held Thursday afternoon, March 1, at the school house in district No. 1, Rev. George E. Freeman officiating.  It was that of Mrs. Clara E. Ladd, wife of Lewis E. Ladd, aged 35 years, whose death occurred in Somesville, Mass., where she went last September by the advice of physicians hoping that a change of climate combined with good medical attendance would restore her once more to health.  All that money and loving care could do was gladly and willingly done, but alas, no human power could stay the dread destroyer, consumption, which for one year has been wearing her life away.

(Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, is a disease caused by bacteria that usually attacks the lungs, and at the turn of the 20th century, the leading cause of death in the United States.)