The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, August 23, 1895 Died of Hydrophobia We learn from the Macon Evening News of Monday of the death of a child from hydrophobia. The parents of the child, Benj. and Mrs. Dix lived in Pike county before moving to Macon, concerning the death the News says: Sometime between the 1st and the 10th of July the little son of Mr. Benjamin Dix of Newburg, South Macon, was bitten on the cheek by a little terrier dog supposed to have been afflicted with rabies. Mrs. Dix and the little boy were then in Houston county, twenty three miles form Macon. The mother brought the little son to a physician in the city immediately and the doctor dressed the wound carefully and stated that while there were no symptoms of hydrophobia, the little fellow would be subject to an attack until forty days had elapsed from the time he was bitten. The wound failed to heal but gave no pain until the latter part of last week when it began to swell and turn green. Yesterday the child was thrown into convulsions. Three physicians were called to the bedside at the parents home on the old Houston road, South Macon. One physician pronounced the disease fever, one nervous prostration, and the other pronounced it hydrophobia, which proved to be the correct diagnosis of the case. At ten o’clock last night the unfortunate boy, after suffering all of the terrible tortures of hydrophobia, breathed his last. The funeral will take place in Pike county tomorrow. His remains will leave this afternoon for Barnesville. (Transcribed 11/09/02 Lynn Cunningham)