This week’s #FridayFind is an unfortunate cause of death.

Written By Dmitri Schmidt, B.A.

Backlog is no stranger to finding details that can come off as a little… unusual to our modern sensibilities (see: last November’s post on “Man struck by board dies”), but this week’s find is unfortunate even to us. According to her death record, Maria Eveslage of Dinklage, Germany, widow of Hermann Hinrich Wehage, at the age of 69, died of Hemorrhoids. Couldn't it have said natural causes?

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Dmitri Schmidt, B.A.

Dmitri Schmidt, B.A., holds a degree in anthropology and German studies from Saint Louis University and has experience in museum collections, archival outreach, and digitization.

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