JONES, Mildred - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Sunday evening at 8 o’clock the little seventeen months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Jones died from the effects of arsenic fly poison. Mr. and Mrs. Jones and the baby, who live 3 ½ miles southwest of Rob Boy, went to spend Sunday with Mrs. Martina Miller, Mrs. Jones’ mother, who lives at Stone Bluff, but they found that Mrs. Miller was away from home. They went into the house, however, to await her return, and while the child was playing about the house, she found a fancy card with a sponge lying on it. The card attracted the baby’s eye and she carried it to her father. He noticed that her lips had a black liquid on them and suspected that she had sucked the sponge. An investigation showed that the sponge had been dipped in poison to kill flies and medical aid was summoned at once. The child soon became sick and it was known that the poison had commenced its work. The poison was removed from the baby’s stomach, but not until part of it became mixed with the blood, and although everything possible was done for its relief the child was soon in great agony and died in spasms about 8 o’clock in the evening.  The child was an especially bright one and is a great loss to the bereaved parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. – thanks to S