Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Green, Hannah Elizabeth 1901
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Belding Banner, 10 Oct 1901, page 1

Woman Killed By Hogs.

Mrs. Ansel Green of Sebewa Meets With a Terrible Fate.

Shortly after the dinner hour last week Wednesday, Mrs. Ansel Green of Sebewa
started for the straw stack in the barnyard to search for eggs.  In the yard
were a number of hogs, among them a vicious sow with a litter of half grown
pigs, and as Mrs. Green neared the stack, the old sow, roused from her sleep,
started for her, and before she could reach the fence bit into her dress, threw
her to the ground, and the whole maddened herd was soon upon her.  Stripping her
of her clothes, they chewed and mangled her horribly.  After the first shock
Mrs. Green rallied, and torn and bleeding fought her way to the fence and threw
herself over it out of danger.  Her son, who was in the barn hitching up a team,
preparatory to going to town, heard the brutes and hurrying to his mother’s aid,
carried her to safety, as the hogs were making for a gap in the fence a few feet
away and would have attacked her again.  She was assisted to the house and the
neighbors called.

Both hands were terribly chewed, and the bone of the left hand, wrist and
forearm were crushed to pieces, while the muscles of the right arm were chewed
and torn to the bone, the large vessels and nerves exposed.  She was horribly
gashed about the face, head and lower extremities and injured somewhat internally.

Doctors being called dressed her wounds and hopes were entertained for her
recovery, but she died Friday night.


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