Mears - Mrs.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 6 March 1896
New Richmond Enterprise: a story has been started about three deaths that have occurred within a year, to the effect that a weaver’s loom played a prominent part. The story goes that Mrs. Mears, after getting a loom of Mrs. Barbara Manners, wove one piece of carpet on said loom and died shortly after. Then the loom went to Mrs. Dearmond, who put in a carpet and died three days afterwards. Mrs. McCullum then got the loom and on last Saturday wove six yards of carpet, dying Tuesday morning, just three days after. Now, the facts are these: Mrs. Mears died of natural causes, Mrs. Dearmond’s death was a mystery, and Mrs. McCallum’s death was caused by stomach trouble. The work Saturday probably hastened her death, but that cannot be laid to the loom. Such idle stories are only a relic of superstition that permeates human nature.