There was a distressing occurrence just across the Pitt line
in Craven County Friday in which three children of George Adams lost their
lives. His wife was doing some washing in the yard while the eldest, 8, and
youngest, 1 year old, played nearby.
Noises were heard from a nest occupied by a sitting hen.
When Mrs. Adams told the eldest boiy to go throw the fowl off the next, the boy
went and without looking, put his hand into the nest to catch the hen. He
quickly withdrew it, crying that she had pecked him. The second boy volunteered
to throw off the hen, but soon screamed that he had been pecked also. The
mother rushed to the nest and found a rattlesnake in it and to her horror, saw
that the snake had bitten both the boys.
In her anxiety to do something for the older boys, the
1-year-old child was forgotten for the time being, and when she returned for
it, found that it had climbed over in the tub of water and was drowned. The two
boys that had been bitten by the rattlesnake died the same day, and all three
children were buried together in the same grave.
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