Adkins, Mrs. – d. 1878

ADKINS

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 10/6/2010 at 11:30:33

Mrs. Adkins, an old lady aged over eighty years and living with one of her sons southwest of Kellogg, met with a sad end last Tuesday night. It seems that she was in the habit of getting up nights and walking about in her sleep.
At such times she would steel out of the house without giving any alarm to the other inmates and wander about in an unconscious state. While out on one of these somnambulistic expeditions during the cold weather of last week she was frozen to death. When found in the morning she was cold and rigid in death.
Source: Newton Journal; December 19, 1878, page 3 (from Kellogg News)