Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-17
Ins,umanity.
A Family. Sick with the Cholera,
Refused the Right tO bury It's
Dcad-A Terrible story.
Irropkrart fEv1 Woman aetb1

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| We learn from Mr.. +. j. Settle, o
this county. who has been running ;
saw mill at Sand Rife. in Herr,
county, the particulars of one of th'
saddcst tragedies. in connection will
The recent visitation of the cholera n
that place, that he has conc within
our knowledge.
AT the time of the first cholera pani,
ut Sand Rifle, the Eddington family
consisting of Mr.. aud Mrs. Eddingto,
and their four children, left the place
and fed with tho resi-. After a sliorI
time, however, they returned amt
took possession nf their dwelling
which is situaicd:dircc,ly against tho
cllff in the valley OF the kcntuck y
river. which is very near ut that point
| Within two or three davs after re.
turning, Miss Eddington, 4 young
| lady of some seventeen or eighteen
wears. took the cholera at 10P. NJ. and
| died in four hours. Her brotherin-
law, Mr.. Shelton, who waited on her
during her sickness. and afterwards
sat up with her corpse, was taken the
same day and died within Il few hours
Mr.. Edttlngton son, Young man of
some nineteen CslIEcnty wears, with
some difficulty obtained wagon and
team with which to convey the body
of his dead sister To The place ofburial
at Union church, SIX miles distant,
having previously sent forward re-
quest TO some friends to have the
grave dug. lie was followed hy his
father and mother and the two young-
cr children i'll another vehicle. On
-pl IN l..
of the church they not only fnun'! that
the request to have the grave pre-
pared had been neglected, but the
people residing there refused to per-
mt them 10 c,itcr the church. aud.
after depo>iting it therein, repaired
10 the residence of am uncle II few
miles oil, but by the time he arrived
there he was 81 far gone With the
cholera HAT he died in II few hour.
Mr.. E'ittin9tcm. with his wife aud
two children. went a short distance
from the church To an unoccupirh
house, recently vacated Ivy its owner
for new one. BY this time all four
were sick with tire dreadful disease.
but II l. currently reported and ic-
ilcV2t, that. soon after entering the
unoccupicd house, It's owner came
about or 10 q clock at night with II
loaded shot gun and, with threats of
instant death. drove thrln out. They
too, were thea compelled, sick ni.h
unto dcati! as they were, 10 seek slici-
Ter with the de.d body OF the aaugi,-
ter III the church, anl there before
daylight next morning the two tllil-
dren died. The feeling of those pa
rents. when Informed Il few hours
later of;'sr death OF their sons i'll tie
presence of the dead bodies Of,
rest Of their children, in that lone
chur"i!--thcmsclves still deadly sick
.nIav DC better imagined than lcS-
c:!hed. La,er, some good Samiari-
taas from the neighhnrhood canic
forward. and after performing lie
oiiire uf burial for their children,
took Mr.. and Mrs. EddIngton their
homes, where thc, iinaiiy iriuln, he'd
over TIE fell disease and " ere res tered
to health.
tits difficult to believe tina. such
co!d-hI"o"ch, ,hcarilcss imhuManitv is
that described above exists in Ken
tucSy community. Eut our intnrfl-
ant is gentleman OF uniirpcachablc |
reracity, and, While he gives the in- !
:!aent of driving the sick Edding- I!
Ions and tiicIr CHI iidrcn from the ma-
occupied house lay l;s suuilcss owner. /
,s the coEIInou talk Of t.,o rcigtbor- /
h"ri,""'i. s-y. il.. has i,ut lit;si. ,!ouht :
# rs entire authpn;ic!ty. That "iittlc 4,
iGubf, however. was all that pre- /,
vented III" individuals name from
being @i.ra in iui.. AMI i.i> vile con-
:nci i,ctd ur 10 proper scu.n and de-