Pfost, Alice

Passed: 1944-11-30

Age: 75

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Obituary Date: 1944-12-08

Information: PFOST RITES ON SATURDAY-FUNERAL RITES HELD ON SATURDAY FOR ALICE PFOST - Funeral services for Miss Alice Pfost, 75, were held from the Ripley United Brethren Church Saturday afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Arthur H. Layman in charge, and the body was taken to the Fairplain cemetery for burial.  Vail undertakers had charge of arrangements.      Miss Pfost, the last member of a well-known pioneer family of the Grasslick section of the county, died at the Kessel hospital last Thursday morning after an illness of less than one week caused by an infection which began in the finger of one hand and spread rapidly.  Even though the new drug, penicillin, was administered her life could not be saved.      For a number of years she had made her home with Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Harrison, the latter being her neice.  On the previous Friday morning she awoke from her sleep about three o'clock and complained of her finger.  A physician who examined it realized that it was an infection and was spreading rapidly.  Mr. Harrison, who had gone to Ohio on business the previous night, was called home, and when her condition did not improve she was removed to the hospital on Sunday, but during the early days of the week her condition became worse, and on Wednesday her doctors and relatives realized that the end was not far off.      When only a girl she witnessed a tragedy in her Grasslick home early one morning when John Morgan murdered her mother, her step-brother, and her sister, Matilda, and struck her on the head with a hatchet.  She ran from the home to a neighbor's, screaming for help, and the neighbor, hearing her cries, came to the rescue and saved her life.  She carried the scar resulting from the wound on her head to her grave.      Two other brothers, H. F. and George W. Pfost, and a sister, Mrs. Maggie Winter, all preceded her in death.