Winnebago County IL Archives News.....Horrible case of poisoning at Rockford, Ill. 1861
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The Daily Dispatch, Mar 19, 1861 1861
--Thirteen Persons Dead.--The Cincinnati Gazette has reports of a horrible 
case of poisoning at Rockford, Ill., by which a whole family, consisting of 
father, mother, and eleven children, have been destroyed. The poisoning was 
produced by eating pork, in the curing of which some deadly substance, 
(probably blue vitriol,) had been used by mistake for saltpetre. The father, 
who died first, was buried on Saturday, on which day the rest of the family 
died. They were buried on Sunday, hearses having to be procured from the 
neighboring towns. 



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