Virgil Ickard Bitten by Copperhead While Working on Well, Jan. 12, 1921

Writing the Record from Granite Falls, Dr. G.E. Flowers says that Virgil Ickard, a young white man who had gone into a dry well 50 feet deep, was bitten on the hand by a poisonous copperhead snake. Mr. Ickard had gone into the well to finish it and in removing some loose rock which had been blasted out of the well, he placed his hand too near the snake and was snapped on the hand. Dr. Flowers says those with the young man say the snake was quite active and had carried a dead rabbit and a number of frogs into its winter quarters for nourishment. (From the Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1921)