If allergic, one sting can do one in. And poison comes from unexpected sources. I onece cut a rose tree down a piece at a time. Took me all day to do it and load it and haul it away. Next day I was very sick and blood tests later in the day told why. I was not hospitalized, but it took about three months to recover. don ----- Original Message ----- From: Mona Knight <mknight5@ctc.net> To: iowa@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions I found a record of one ancestor in Illinois that said she was "poisoned." I was convinced that maybe her husband poisoned her! (Ok, so I have a good imagination!) Turns out from another article that she died of multiple bee stings from a swarm of bees. Guess that is a poisoning, in a way. mk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan and Kay" <dpogrant@new.rr.com> To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] ilnesses of emigrants >I have been typing obituaries, most from the 1930's in the Appanoose area , > and the last one I did was of a woman who died from typhoid. She was the > third one who had died from drinking from the same well on the home farm. > I have several obits where a bull gored a farmer to death, a baby that > died > when he pulled a table cloth and a hot meal fell on him, a baby that fell > into a bucket filled with milk. The ones of the young children are so > sorrowful. My mothers brother died in the early 1920's when he was two. > She said that he had swallowed a kernel of corn and it went down a wrong > "pipe". I have often wondered if that was true. His obit said "he > suffered > much in the two weeks of his illness for it was constant". > I have typed many obits that also tell of the illness of men coming home > from the Civil War or WW I. Many had been gassed while overseas and they > never recovered. > > Kay in Wisconsin > > >> It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just >> smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. >> In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared >> between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or >> month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours >> and >> mine. >> A new section of my county website deals with this subject. >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm >> >> I hope this may help someone. >> >> donkelly >> >> > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As one who is allergic to bees I can attest that Don is right. I've been stung 3 times and ended up in the trauma center with each one - thank God for fantastic doctors and nurses. I carry an Epipen 24/7 and everyone in my family knows how to use it! (While someone else dials 911) A "swarm" of bees - makes me shudder just to think of it! That poor woman, how awful. Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net> To: "Mona Knight" <mknight5@ctc.net> Cc: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > If allergic, one sting can do one in. > > And poison comes from unexpected sources. > > I onece cut a rose tree down a piece at a time. Took me all day to do it > and load it and haul it away. > > Next day I was very sick and blood tests later in the day told why. > > I was not hospitalized, but it took about three months to recover. > > don > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mona Knight <mknight5@ctc.net> > To: iowa@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:39:09 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > > I found a record of one ancestor in Illinois that said she was "poisoned." > I was convinced that maybe her husband poisoned her! (Ok, so I have a > good > imagination!) Turns out from another article that she died of multiple > bee > stings from a swarm of bees. Guess that is a poisoning, in a way. > > mk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan and Kay" <dpogrant@new.rr.com> > To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ilnesses of emigrants > > >>I have been typing obituaries, most from the 1930's in the Appanoose area >>, >> and the last one I did was of a woman who died from typhoid. She was the >> third one who had died from drinking from the same well on the home farm. >> I have several obits where a bull gored a farmer to death, a baby that >> died >> when he pulled a table cloth and a hot meal fell on him, a baby that fell >> into a bucket filled with milk. The ones of the young children are so >> sorrowful. My mothers brother died in the early 1920's when he was two. >> She said that he had swallowed a kernel of corn and it went down a wrong >> "pipe". I have often wondered if that was true. His obit said "he >> suffered >> much in the two weeks of his illness for it was constant". >> I have typed many obits that also tell of the illness of men coming home >> from the Civil War or WW I. Many had been gassed while overseas and they >> never recovered. >> >> Kay in Wisconsin >> >> >>> It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just >>> smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. >>> In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared >>> between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or >>> month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours >>> and >>> mine. >>> A new section of my county website deals with this subject. >>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm >>> >>> I hope this may help someone. >>> >>> donkelly >>> >>> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.6/1981 - Release Date: 03/03/09 07:25:00

My mother would talk about an accidential poisoning that happened when she was younger. It seems that a massive amount of salt was mixed in with baby fromula resulting in many deaths. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net> To: "Mona Knight" <mknight5@ctc.net> Cc: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > If allergic, one sting can do one in. > > And poison comes from unexpected sources. > > I onece cut a rose tree down a piece at a time. Took me all day to do it > and load it and haul it away. > > Next day I was very sick and blood tests later in the day told why. > > I was not hospitalized, but it took about three months to recover. > > don > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mona Knight <mknight5@ctc.net> > To: iowa@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:39:09 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > > I found a record of one ancestor in Illinois that said she was "poisoned." > I was convinced that maybe her husband poisoned her! (Ok, so I have a > good > imagination!) Turns out from another article that she died of multiple > bee > stings from a swarm of bees. Guess that is a poisoning, in a way. > > mk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan and Kay" <dpogrant@new.rr.com> > To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ilnesses of emigrants > > >>I have been typing obituaries, most from the 1930's in the Appanoose area >>, >> and the last one I did was of a woman who died from typhoid. She was the >> third one who had died from drinking from the same well on the home farm. >> I have several obits where a bull gored a farmer to death, a baby that >> died >> when he pulled a table cloth and a hot meal fell on him, a baby that fell >> into a bucket filled with milk. The ones of the young children are so >> sorrowful. My mothers brother died in the early 1920's when he was two. >> She said that he had swallowed a kernel of corn and it went down a wrong >> "pipe". I have often wondered if that was true. His obit said "he >> suffered >> much in the two weeks of his illness for it was constant". >> I have typed many obits that also tell of the illness of men coming home >> from the Civil War or WW I. Many had been gassed while overseas and they >> never recovered. >> >> Kay in Wisconsin >> >> >>> It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just >>> smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. >>> In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared >>> between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or >>> month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours >>> and >>> mine. >>> A new section of my county website deals with this subject. >>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm >>> >>> I hope this may help someone. >>> >>> donkelly >>> >>> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

This poor ancestor, who died of bee stings, left a husband and one son. The son also died, and her husband never remarried. He lived with various people and eventually died in the Old Soldiers Home in Illinois. Another in that branch of my family was killed in a boiler explosion in Warren County, Illinois. My gr-gr-grandfather and his brother-in-law, having come to Illinois from Kentucky about 1850, were at the Bond saw mill in the winter, preparing to make sled crooks to build a new sled. Mr. Patterson, the brother-in-law, was warming himself by the boiler, while my gggrandfather went to the house to ask for a tool. The boiler over heated, exploded and threw him about 50 feet, according to the article written about it. Mr Patterson died of massive injuries, leaving a pregnant wife and several children. The next year, his wife moved back to Kentucky to be with her family, while my gggrandfather went on to Nebraska. Then another in-law in that line had a daughter that was killed the next year by fire. They were boiling molasses and her dress was set aflame by the outdoor open fire, and she died the next morning. She was only 16. Illinois was a hard place to live for my family in the mid-1800's. Mona ----- Original Message ----- From: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net> To: "Mona Knight" <mknight5@ctc.net> Cc: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > If allergic, one sting can do one in. > > And poison comes from unexpected sources. > > I onece cut a rose tree down a piece at a time. Took me all day to do it > and load it and haul it away. > > Next day I was very sick and blood tests later in the day told why. > > I was not hospitalized, but it took about three months to recover. > > don > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mona Knight <mknight5@ctc.net> > To: iowa@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:39:09 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [IOWA] illnesses and other death certificate descriptions > > I found a record of one ancestor in Illinois that said she was "poisoned." > I was convinced that maybe her husband poisoned her! (Ok, so I have a > good > imagination!) Turns out from another article that she died of multiple > bee > stings from a swarm of bees. Guess that is a poisoning, in a way. > > mk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan and Kay" <dpogrant@new.rr.com> > To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ilnesses of emigrants > > >>I have been typing obituaries, most from the 1930's in the Appanoose area >>, >> and the last one I did was of a woman who died from typhoid. She was the >> third one who had died from drinking from the same well on the home farm. >> I have several obits where a bull gored a farmer to death, a baby that >> died >> when he pulled a table cloth and a hot meal fell on him, a baby that fell >> into a bucket filled with milk. The ones of the young children are so >> sorrowful. My mothers brother died in the early 1920's when he was two. >> She said that he had swallowed a kernel of corn and it went down a wrong >> "pipe". I have often wondered if that was true. His obit said "he >> suffered >> much in the two weeks of his illness for it was constant". >> I have typed many obits that also tell of the illness of men coming home >> from the Civil War or WW I. Many had been gassed while overseas and they >> never recovered. >> >> Kay in Wisconsin >> >> >>> It seems lots of people died of illnesses in Iowa, and not from just >>> smallpox alone. Some could have frozen to death of course. >>> In my research I found several places where ancestors just dissapeared >>> between census, or two or more family members died in the same week or >>> month, so I started paying more attention to diseases that killed yours >>> and >>> mine. >>> A new section of my county website deals with this subject. >>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iadesmoi/Illness/illnesses.htm >>> >>> I hope this may help someone. >>> >>> donkelly >>> >>> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >