Child Dies From Rattlesnake Bite

TEEPLE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/15/2010 at 16:50:09

Mr. John Teeple, who lives eight miles west, lost a son on Sunday last, aged eleven years and two months, from the effects of a rattlesnake bite. It appears the boy was in company with his mother and several others, picking blackberries, when they were attracted by his screams, and upon repairing to where he was, they found that he had been bitten in the ankle. Every remedy was applied, but to no effect; he died on Sunday last, after suffering most excruciating pain.
History of Jackson County, Iowa, Vol. I, page 646, 1910, J. W. Ellis