PRESCOTT, Achsa Jane 1835-1854

PRESCOTT

Posted By: Allamakee co. Coordinator (email)
Date: 9/15/2006 at 05:17:07

Poisoned! On the 11th inst. at Hardin, Allamakee county, Miss Achsa Jane, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Prescott, formerly of Newport, Maine, was poisoned by eating wild parsnip in mistake for wild artichoke. She lived about an hour after eating the poison. Miss P. was 16 years of age.

-source: Garnavillo Herald, April 21, 1854

-submitters note: Achsa Jane Prescott is listed in "Burial Grounds of Allamakee co." by D. Woodmansee, as being buried in Hardin cemetery. Woodmansee gives her birth date as June 11, 1835 but erroneously gives date of death as April 11, 1861. The error in the death date possibly being due to difficulty in reading the inscription on the stone.

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Added by Ken Wright
Date: 4/5/2013

The Mirror, Lyons, Clinton County, Iowa, May 23, 1854

DIED
At Hardin, Allamakee County, Iowa, on the 11th ult., Miss JANE PRESCOTT, was poisoned by eating wild parsnips. She lived about one hour after eating the parsnips. Miss Prescott was about sixteen years of age.

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Added by Ken Wright, July 17, 2013:

Dubuque Herald, May 23, 1854

At Hardin, Allamakee County, on the 11th ult., Miss Jane Prescott was poisoned by eating wild parsnips. She lived about one hour. Miss Prescott was about sixteen years of age.