Earl S. Bennett (1892)

BENNETT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 1/17/2008 at 13:38:21

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, August 12, 1892
Page 3

Grand River and Macksburg

Last Saturday James Bennett, of Webster township, went to assist a neighbor with his work, leaving his wife and children at home. Earl, a bright little lad of four summers, had been playing with a stick horse, and just before dinner told his mamma that he must go and feed his horse. She told him to hurry as dinner was nearly ready. When he had been gone but a few minutes she heard a cry of distress, and looking out saw to her horror, that the barn was all ablaze around the door. The neighbors soon gathered in, but the fire had gained such headway that the barn was consumed, and poor little Earl was found in the ruins, a blackened corpse. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The mother is entirely prostrated and has only the most vague idea of what took place. Friends and neighbors are doing all that sympathy and assistance can do, but what words of comfort can reach the sorrow caused by seeing one’s own child swallowed up in such a horrible calamity? The writer conducted the funeral services Sunday morning, and the remains were laid to rest in the Moon cemetery south of this place.

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