The Ouachita Telegraph - Little Lillie Fouts Drowns in Wash Tub

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, October 22, 1887
Page 2, Column 6

BIENVILLE.
 Last Monday, at about noon a heart-rending accident occurred in our place.
Washing was being done at Mr. L.P. Butler’s; Mrs. Butler had prepared
dinner, and as they were ready to eat the meal, she inquired for her baby,
of her little boy, in whose charge she had left it, and he told her he had
left it at the wash tub in the yard.  She ran out and found her darling babe
and only girl -–little Lillie Fouts – drowned in the tub.
 Mr. Butler caught her in his arms and ran to Dr. Pollard with her, but she
was beyond resusitation (sic). – Gibbsland New Era.

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