Obituary of Bessie Cassity ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Bessie Cassity Owingsville Outlook, August 25, 1910 Poisonous Lemonade At the public school at Farmers Wednesday afternoon, August 17, the pupils were treated to lemonade, which was made in a galvanized iron tub. Some was left in the tub, and next morning more lemons, sugar and water were added to that in the tub and stirred up. The children drank freely of it and soon began to get sick. Bessie Cassity, aged 9 years, daughter of Jeff (Bud) Cassity and wife (a daughter of the late William Wyatt), took very sick and died Friday morning. Bud Cassity is a son of Walker Cassity and a brother of Mrs. Samuel J. Ratliff, of Owings House. The child was buried at Howard's Mill Saturday.