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- Teresa G. Baldry:
Death: vor 1900 - Beaver Creek, McIntosh County, North Dakota, U.S.a.
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Died before the 1900 census. When she was but a toddler,she met with a most disturbing accident. Her mother had rendered some animal fat, and set it in the corner cupboard under a shelf on the floor. She set a washtub as a barricade across the front of it to be sure none of the children would have access to it. Little Amelia being curious squeezed between the tub and the cupboard, and when her legs touched the hot pot, she jumped and lost her balance and sat into the hot fat which splashed up to her waist. The pain was excruciatingly unbearable. One of the neighbors came by and suggested a healing remedy. By pouring water over unslacked lime and allowing the bubbling & boiling action to die down, then it was set to cool off. When the lime settled and the clear liguid rose, they mixed linseed oil with the clear lime water and spread this on her burns. It did, in fact, heal her burns, except for a soft spot above her hip, which would not heal. The sore went inward and eventually cost her life. They built her coffin and buried her in the corner of the honestead.
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