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Show FAMILY MARKED BY ODDITY London Newepaper Tells of Strange Fate That Pursued Group Doth In Life and Death. There lived nt Ipswich In the. reign of William III a fiunily known us tho "odd family." 11 most appropriate name, us the following facts proic, Loudon Answers Mntes: ler event, grtod. had or Indifferent, Indiffer-ent, enme to Unit family In an odd year or an odd day of tho month, am evu'y person was odd In manner 01 behavior or apiienrnncv. Cot the letters of their ChrlsMuti nniifs always al-ways amounted to an odd 11u1nl.fr. Tlie father nnd mother weie Peter and Itnluib; their seven cMlilrcn (nil boys) bore lln tuiinrs of David. Er.e-klel, Er.e-klel, Jnmes, .lnn;is, .Maithew, linger and Solomon, The hn'and posM-sseil olilj one leg and 1 s wife only one iirm; Snlijnmii wiw lillml In Ills left eye ami linger 1 "t his right In nn necliteiil ; .Tntui s hud his left ear torn off In a iiunr- I .Matthew's left hand bud hut thrr- lingers. Jonas I'Uil !i stuiiii foot, David was himiiihncked nud Kzeklel was C feet 2 Inches ut the nge of nineteen, fivcry one or the children had red hair, nor-wlthstiimllug nor-wlthstiimllug the fact that the father's hft'r was Jet black nnd the mother's ' bile. SiMnge at birth, nil died as st'ungely. 'J lie fatlier fell Into n deep saw pit nnd Mas killed, the wife died live dayi. 'atler from Ntiirvatimi. Keklel cnllt-ed, cnllt-ed, was woiinileil In 23 plnres, hut re-coercd. re-coercd. ltivger, .Inmes, Jotms, David mnl Mntthuw died lu 1713 hi kl1 dlf-fetent dlf-fetent placcp on the same day; Solomon Solo-mon and Kzeklel were drowned In the Thames In 172:1. |