HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 17, 2012 125 Years Ago Affliction indeed has laid a heavy hand upon Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Slade of this village. In October last a little casket containing all that was mortal of their boy Louie, ten years old, and of their baby girl, two years old – both of whom died of diphtheria within a few days of each other – was taken to Franklin and placed in the cemetery there. The day that Louie died,…