Snake Bit

Bertie, Ed and Ida Eury's second daughter, had crossed the Eury Dam to visit Aunt Lizzie and Uncle T. McNeill. She often crossed the Dam to visit her Grandmother and Grandfather Haywood who lived across the river. Sometimes she and her older sister, Bessie, visited and played with cousins living across the river. While Bertie, who would a few years later marry Andrew Hamilton, was coming back home she was bitten by a copperhead snake or a puffing adder snake, they never determined which kind of snake it was. She limped the rest of the way home on her swelling, aching leg. As days passed and her leg swelled more, it looked as though she might lose it, but finally the leg began to go down to its regular size. How happy her sister Bessie, who would later marry George Lewis, Ed and Ida were to see Bertie well again.