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Samuel Richie

Database record, Soldiers' Orphans at the Lincoln Institution - no information.

Samuel Richie, was removed by death, caused by nervous postration; he was bitten by a strange dog which had run into the Store where he was employed, in trying to catch it as it ran out it bit him on the arm; he was at once cauterized and sent to “The Educational Home” for three weeks.

He returned apparently well, but in about a week’s time be showed symptoms of nervousness that resulted in such weakness that nothing could overcome; and he died in sixty hours after he was taken sick; he received every care and attention from the Physician in charge, but it seemed one of those mysterious cases in which Medical skill is of little avail.

Lincoln Institution Annual Report, 1879

Information from Death Certificate

Last Name	First Name	Date of Death	Birth Date	Age	Sex	Cause of Death	Address	Examining Physician	Cemetery
Richie	Samuel	1878-08-14	c. 1864	13 years 9 months	M	Exhaustion	Lincoln Institution, 11th St.	M. Hau Valzah, M.D.	Mount Moriah Cemetery, section 116, plot 77

Death Certificate not found

LI - Lincoln Institution
EH - Educational Home