Sarah (Kirkpatrick) Hazen (1899)

HAZEN, KIRKPATRICK

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 8/13/2007 at 10:09:51

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 23, 1899
Page 1

Dead in a Well.

Word was brought to town last Saturday that Mrs. Hazen of Lee township, widow of Emersom Hazen, met her death by falling in a well from which she went to take some articles that had been hung down to keep cool. There was no one about but some visitors.
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The Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 23, 1899
Page 5

Fell in a Well

Mrs. Sarah Hazen of Lee township, living near Booneville, went to the well last Saturday to get water. It was the custom of the family to keep butter and milk in the well attached to a rope, and a trap door had been cut in the platform surrounding the well, and when Mrs. Hazen went out on her errand she stepped on the trap which had been misplaced and she went to the bottom, the fall killing her instantly. The neighborhood was aroused and she was soon taken out of the well. The funeral occurred Sunday afternoon.

The unfortunate woman was 62 years of age and the aunt of Frank Hazen of Jefferson township.
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Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 23, 1899
Page 7

Jefferson Township

A very sad affair happened last Friday about 10 o’clock a. m. was that of Mrs. Sarah Hazen. She went out after a bucket of water and while pumping the boards gave way letting her into the well. She was found at 11 a. m. and life was extinct. She was buried in the Union Chapel cemetery Sunday forenoon. The funeral services conducted by Rev. E. Elliot of Van Meter.
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The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 7, 1899

Lee Township

Mrs. Sarah Hazen, an old resident of Lee Township, met with a very sad death at her home on Friday, November 16th. She went to a well near the barn for a bucket of water and while pumping, the platform gave away and she fell into the well and was killed instantly. Her remains were buried at the U. B. cemetery. She leaves 3 children Whom are grown.
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Coordinator's note: Maiden name taken from daughter Mary's 1885 Madison County Marriage Record.

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