Sime, Susie (Died 1924)

SIME

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/1/2009 at 20:44:07

Hawarden Independent
October 23, 1924

Susie Sime, aged 48, a gypsy of Balkan descent, died in a tent near Sioux
Rapids early the morning of October 14th. She had been ailing and about
midnight she arose and brewed some tea from roots which she had picked
nearby. She died about an hour after having drunk of the beverage. The next
morning the husband went to a nearby house and wanted a box in which to bury
his wife. The farmer called in a health officer and the coroner and the
inquest showed that the woman died from acute indigestion. It is thought
that the tea she drank had little or nothing to do with her death as her
husband drank more than she did. Mr. Sime said that their home was in River
Falls, Wis., and that they were on their way home from Nebraska. Interment
was made in the Sioux Rapids cemetery and Buena Vista county paid the
expenses. The woman was extraordinarily large, in fact so large that a
special casket had to be made for her.