9-Year-Old Boy Dies of Rabies, Oct. 31, 1925

Lexington Boy Dies of Hydrophobia. . . 9-Year-Old Son of Dr. Freeman Was Bitten September 13th

Lexington, N.C., Oct. 31 (AP)—Lois Freeman, 9-year-old son of Dr. Ira K. Freeman, pastor of Erlanger Baptist Church, died at the home of his father near here this morning of hydrophobia. The boy was bitten at Asheville September 13th. He was given treatment but became ill four days ago.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1925. Another story about the Freeman boy’s death spells his first name as “Louis” and not “Lois.”

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