Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 6, 16 January 1890 — MR. LYONS SAD AFFLICTION. [ARTICLE]

MR. LYONS' SAD AFFLICTION.

After a month of deep affliction and sorrow, our noble friend and able manager Mr. Daniel Lyons, has returned to his post of duty in this office. Hardly within our memory, do we know of such fell disaster falling upon one family outside of the seasons of epidemic disease. During the last days of the old year, Mr. Lyons' youngest child Zeripha aged 2 years and 3 months, was stricken with diphtheria and died upon the 29th of December, 1889. The next day, December 30th, little Lizzie aged 12 years and 1 month sickened and died with the same dread disease. Still the destroyer stayed not his hand. Upon January 1, 1890, Mrs. Danie Lyons, the devoted mother and tender wife, succumbed to the disease and passed away in the bloom of her life at the age of 34 years and 6 months. Lest teh disease should become epidemic th eremainder of the stricken family now went into quarantine; during which Mr. Lyons' second son, young Ray, was taken sick and was removed to the Queen's hospital in Honolulu where he lingered for a few days before death relieved him of his sufferings on January 9th. His death is @ to be due mainly

to general debility and sorrow for the loss of his mother. Mr. Lyons is now left with only two children to console him and soften his sorrow. These, little Dan, aged 10 years and little Florence, aged 6 years, are now spending a few weeks at Waikiki with their father. The family have the heartfelt and expressed sympathy of the entire community.