Why would anyone kill black snakes or blue racers? They are not poisoness snakes and are very beneficial. I guess people in that day and age were not aware of how helpful these critters can be. Jan Flowers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Connie Shotts, CG" <cshotts1@carolina.rr.com> To: <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: 09/25/2012 10:08 AM Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Brown County: Roy Morse Plowed Up Snakes' Nestin Brown County > Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Courier, May 26, 1911, p. 2. > > PLOWS UP SNAKES' NEST. > Roy Morse, a farmer seven miles west of Nashville Brown county, killed > twenty-one snakes recently. He was plowing and unearthed two large balls > of > the reptiles. In one there were nine blue racers. The rest were > blacksnakes. > Nearly all of the snakes were more than four feet long. > > > Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) > CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for > Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants > after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark > registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. > > > The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who > have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by > the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, > Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, > Scott and Washington. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I can say that I'm not fond of snakes, and hope to not encounter one. But, I grew up on a farm, and if we saw a Black snake in the pasture, or one was close to the house, my Dad took it to the pasture. They got rid of the varmits around. My Mom did kill one that she found in the basment sucking eggs one day. Nadine