OBIT: Sarah GOODLOE, 1876, Portage, Cambria County, PA

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GOODLOE - Miss Sarah Goodloe of Portage, Cambria county, aged nineteen 
years, daughter of a leading citizen of that place, was bitten by a 
rattlesnake while picking berries on Wyckoff Mountain, on July 19th, a 
mile and a half from home, and being unable to reach home died a 
frightful death in the woods. She was accompanied by two little girls, 
one of whom hastened to the village with the news, and two physicains 
repaired to the spot as soon as possible, only to find her in the 
agonies of death. One of the little girls, Laura Webb, says that when 
the snake struck Miss Goodloe they were near the top of the ridge, and 
were about to start home, having their pails filled with berries. Miss 
Goodloe threw herself on the ground shrieking, and the little girl saw 
the snake still hanging to her leg. She ran up and seized it by the 
tail jerked it loose, and killed it with a club. The deceased young 
lady was the only surviving child of her father, whose wife and son met 
with violent deaths, the former dying from lockjaw caused by a needle 
in her foot and the later having been gored to death by a bull.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, July 26, 1876