Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Rutherford, Infant 1899
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Idaho Daily Statesman 6-8-1899
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise, Idaho
Thursday, June 8, 1899
 
FATAL ACCIDENT
Child Killed In Runaway Near That Place
 
LADY SEVERELY INJURED
The Child's Grandmother Took It For a Drive While the Parents Were at the Show
 
Ontario, Ore., June 7 -- While the rest of the folks were gone to the circus 
at Weiser yesterday Mrs. R. S. Rutherford, wife of a prominent farmer of this 
valley, undertook to drive her neighbor, Mrs. John Stone, over to the Hulery 
farm, about three miles distant to see her son, who was working there, taking 
Benjamin Rutherford's four-old-son, who had been left with his grandmother for 
the day along with them.
 
In going over, near the Elliott place, about three miles west of Ontario, Mrs. 
Rutherford driving, Mrs. Stone holding the child, the pony they were driving 
became frightened at a band of horses passing and shied off into the 
sagebrush, throwing Mrs. Stone and the baby from the cart.  Mrs. Rutherford 
soon got the pony under control, picked up Mrs. Stone and the child and drove 
to Brown's hotel in this city, where a doctor was immediately called.  Mrs. 
Stone was found to have received a sprained wrist, several bad bruises about 
the face and head and it is feared serious internal injury.
 
The child had received injuries which threw it into spasms from which it died 
about midnight and before its father and mother had returned from the show.
 
With the exception of a severe nervous shock, Mrs. Rutherford, grandmother of 
the child, was uninjured.

Additional Comments:
Note:  The parents of the child are Benjamin Franklin Rutherford and Daisy 
Viola Henshaw Rutherford.  This information was provided to me from Jan 
Hinshaw.  Thank you!

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