Mrs. James Bennett

BENNETT

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 10/2/2001 at 00:02:45

SUDDEN DEATH

Friday morning Mrs. James Bennett rose at her usual hour in apparently as good health as usual and began the prepartion [sic] of the mornings meal. About five o'clock Mr. Bennett went to a neighbors for water, and Mrs. Bennett went to the cistern at their own house for a pail of soft water, and while drawing the water she was stricken with appoplexy and fell into the cistern, a corpse.

Shortly afterward, Mr. Bennett returned with his pail of water and missed his wife. He called her and received no answer and went to the cistern and discovered her lifeless body in the water. He jumped down into the cistern which contained only about four feet of water and held her up and called for help. When she was taken from the well life was extinct there being no signs of life about her. Medical aid was summoned and the physician pronounced the cause of her death appoplexy.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 29 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, Iowa Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in November 1999. Name and date of newspaper not given.) ORIGINAL POST 15 Nov 1999.

I am not related to this person and am posting this obit for those who may find him/her in their family history.