Anyone have a PITBULL?

[FISHHEAD]

As mentioned by others, the Akita breed in the dog just as much or more of possible concerns.

 

Will monitor closely, relax folks.

[Guest boatboatboat]

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/myp/myp-usa-hazards/imagesetc/tornado-deaths-1950-2008.png

[spankie]

How many poster deaths per year?  Is posting even that dangerous? 

[jd_]

How many poster deaths per year? Is posting even that dangerous?

Carpal Tunnel

[spankie]

So it's more of a slow, prolonged fatality..    

 

That makes sense. 

[Guest boatboatboat]

The fatalities (See figure below) I use ** to indicate new ones which will mess up the numbers on the figure.

1. [unknown date] A boy, David Lowry, was buried in a Lowry cemetery in Southern Iowa Report 114
2. [unknown date] In West Grove township in Davis County Evergreen Cemetery has the grave of the daughter of Wm Carson who died of a rattlesnake bite. The date of deaths is not given but from the other deaths in this old cemetery it was likely in the 1840's or 1850's Report 600.
3. [unknown date] Freeland Corwin of Fox township in Black Hawk County died of a rattlesnake bite. Report 647
4. ** 1842 About this date two boys died in Galesburg, Newton County according to an early settler Report 367
5. 1845  Mary Moore "died of the bite of a rattlesnake" in Le Claire Township in Scott County in Eastern Iowa.  The age of the lady and the exact circumstances of her death were not uncovered. Report 175
6. 1849 Nancy Warner, a 28 year old lady,  died of a snake  bite in district 26 in Keokuk County Iowa. This was found in the 1850 Census mortality schedule for Iowa using an Ancestry.com search.  No other information is yet known about the circumstances of the bite.
7. 1849 Ten year old Henry Sinco, according to a family history (report 239), was picking berries for a pie when he was bitten fatally by a rattlesnake. The  bite occurred close to their home near Galso (now Glasgow) in Jefferson County close to the Cedar river. An early history of Jefferson County (report 158) indicates that these were timber rattlesnakes.
8. 1849 Andrew Jones was a 8 year old boy who died of a snake bite in Jackson County Iowa according to the 1850 Census  mortality schedule.
9. 1851 [est.]** Twelve year old John Mort died of a rattlesnake in Van Buren County Report 645
10. ** 1853 An early history of Adair County (Report 286) relates the death of a young boy (7 or 8 year old) of William Alcorn (one of the first settlers) a couple hours after being bitten in Jefferson Township.
11. 1854 Malinda J. Coffman is recorded as having died of a snake bite.  She should have been about 26 years old.  She died two years after she married him and was likely fairly young.   Her death was in Appanoose County.  Report 214
12. ** 1855 Martha Doud died from a rattlesnake bite in Marion County and was buried  (buried in  Bussey). Report 602
13. Abe Hirshey died of a rattlesnake bite in Lisbon (Linn County) area report 332
14. ** 1856 The Red Oak Grove North cemetery near Tipton, Iowa (Cedar County) lists 27 year old William Willis as dying from a rattlesnake bite. Report 529.
15. 1856 Amelia Bottger was 22 years old when she died of a rattlesnake bite presumably in Ollie in Keokuk County in SE Iowa.  Report 155b.
16. 1857 A young boy (1 and a half years old) of Geo. C. Albaugh died of a snake bite that he received while playing in the grass in front of their house in the Cedar Rapids area (Linn County).  Report 245
17. 1857** The little daughter of Wiiliam Devine was bitten by a rattlesnake in the yard and she died that night. The bite occurred in Eastern Iowa in Des Moines County.  Report 373
18. ** 1858 A Burlington paper tells the story of the four year old daughter of Mr Hall who was bitten in the Burlington area while picking berries and died in a couple of days.  I suspect it was timber but both timber and massasauga rattlesnakes would have been Des Moines county back then. Report 362
19. 1858 Eleven year old Orrin Teeple was bitten on the ankle while gathering blaqckberries in South fork Township in Jackson county and died 4 days latter. Report 502.
20. ** 1858 Cyprian Stevens died five days after being bitten by a rattlesnake in rural Allamakee County. Report 329.
21. **  1858 (exact date not given) a young boy, Sylvester Brockway, fatally bitten in his yard was the first death in boon Township in Wright County according to an early history. Report 574
22. 1859 Nancy Evans was a 10 year old girl who was recorded on the 1860 mortality schedule of having died in Union Township in Davis County Iowa.  Report 204
23. 1859 Twenty two year old Mary McGhee was recorded to have died of a snake bite in Post township in SW Allamakee County.  According to an early history of this county both "the yellow rattlesnake  [timber] and the massasauga or prairie rattlesnake were frequently encountered" (Alexander 1882; p. 345).  There is an early newspaper description of what appears to be massasauga from Post township (Report 186).  However massasauga do not generally kill a healthy adult and the fact that she died in a day suggests it was most likely a timber rattlesnake bite.   1860 Mortality schedule  Report 207
24. 1859 One year old Hannah E Gowdy is recorded on the 1860 mortality schedule as dying of a snake bite in Soap Creek in Davis County in Iowa. Report 205. (not written up)
25. ** 1860  Nine year old Virginia Ware was bit by a rattlesnake in southern Monroe County (Franklin township) on her way to Sabbath school and died a week later. Report 696
26. **1861 Laura Brown was bitten by a rattlesnake while picking berries in Jasper County and died at the age of 84 Report 278
27. **1861 Forty two year old Mrs. Isabel Gray died of a rattlesnake bite in Harrison township in the southern part of Mahaska County Report 601
28. 1862  Frank Wanless was a 12 year old who "Died in Bluffton, IA of rattlesnake bite"  in Winneshiek County in the NE corner of the state.  Report 164
29. 1862 Seven year old Rebecca Carpenter is recorded in a family history page of having died of a snake bite in Newbern in SW corner of Marion County.  Report 213.
30. 1864  Lorenzo Parsons, a farmer about fifty years old, was  bitten by a massasauga while taking corn out of a crib.  He died in Sweetland Township in Muscatine County.  This County is on the eastern central side of the state.  Report 83.
31. 1865 ** Richard Stanley from Muscatine county died a couple days after being bitten by a rattlesnake.  Report 387
32. 1867** A newspaper indicates that an Indian was bitten in Lansing in Allamakee county and died in a few hours.  Report 363
33. 1868  James B. Couch is mentioned in an 1894 bibliography as having died from a rattlesnake bite in Jasper County.  Newton's Union Cemetery lists James B. Couch as having died on July 21, 1868 when he was 8 years old. There were both massasauga and timber rattlesnakes in the county so we don't know which killed him. Report 168
34. 1869 Sarah Seller, who was about 10 at the time died of a snake bite and is buried in Decatur county Iowa. I have not been able to find any description of the snake bite. Report 242.
35.  1869** Lymer, a little boy, from the Des Moines area was bitten while picking black berries by a large rattlesnake and died soon afterwards.  Report 372
36. 1869 Nine year old (Henry) Robert Clark is reported to have died of "bite of rattlesnake" according to the mortality schedule of the 1870 Iowa Census.  He died in Washington Prairie near Frankville, Winneshiek County about a week after the bite.  The newspaper account says it was "the large yellow kind" which means this was a timber rattlesnake. Report 211.
37. 1869 Nine year old Mary Wiaklend was "bitten by a rattlesnake" in August of 1869 in Spenser in Clay County according to the 1870 mortality schedule.  I have not heard of rattlesnakes from this county before.  So far I have not been able to uncover any details of the snake bite. I have looked at a  copy of the original mortality schedule and this was transcribed correctly into the Ancestry.com database  Report 209
38. 1869** Seven year old Alanzo Miller was bitten by a timber rattlesnake in Lucas County and died the next day.  Report 342
39. 1870 Five year old Willie Tolbet died of a snake bite in Bethram in Linn County. 1870 Mortality schedule   Report 212 (not written up).
40. 1870** a boy f John Kreerel from the Sioux City area died a couple of days after being bit by a rattlesnake report 640
41. 1871 Nineteen year old Charles Conrad Friedrich Stumme died of a rattlesnake bite in Bremer County.  There is a extant (living) population of massasauga in that county, but I don't know if there were timber. Report 84
42. **1871 A little daughter of John Cooper who lived in rural Monroe County died after being bit by a rattlesnake while she was collecting hazelnuts. Report 371
43. 1872** a thirteen year old girl was bitten 5 miles west of Williams Iowa and died within a couple of hours.  The quickness of the death and the fact that Timber rattlesnakes were known from Webster City just to the west would suggest (but not prove) that this was a bite from a timber rattlesnake Report 583.
44. 1872 Three year old Mathilda Hoglund, a farmer's daughter, died of a rattlesnake bite when she was taking lunch to the men in the field.  From habitat the snakes were found in, and the lack of rock exposures (usually present for timbers in this area) it is likely that she was bitten by a massasauga. This occurred on a farm in the vicinity of Kiron in Crawford County Report 72
45. ** 1873 Mrs Jacob Gustin of Mt Ayre, Ringgold County died from the effects of a rattlesnake bite.  Mrs. gustin died about a week after being bitten.  Report 418
46. ** 1874 A Norwegian, who lived in Adams County, in the vicinity of the town of Carl was bitten by a rattlesnake and died the same evening.  The rapidity of death suggests a timber rattlesnake.  Report 369
47. ** 1874 the thirteen year old daughter of John B. Wilson of Jefferson township in Madison County was bitten in the brush by Coon Creek while looking for cows.  Report 287.
48. ** 1874 The six year old daughter of Robert Martin of Avoca was bitten by a rattlesnake and died in a few days latter.  Report 597
49. ** 1876 On May 10th twelve year old Owen Mahoney was bitten by a rattlesnake and died soon afterwards. Report 325
50. ** 1876 In early August Mrs. John A. Edmond died from a snake bite she received while she was binding grain in Buck grove in Grundy County.  Report 340.
51. 1876 A newspaper notes that the three year old child of T.B. McGauflin was bitten by a rattlesnake that got into her house near Clarinda in Page County.  Report 123
52. 1876 Seven year old Harry Ford was bitten in the foot by a rattlesnake while helping his dad break sod in Jasper County.  A bite in the prairie while breaking sod would be a likely massasauga habitat, but there were also timber in the county (see number 13 above) and either one of them could have caused the death.  Report 169.
53. 1876 A young man, probably eleven year old Frankie Atkinson, died of a rattlesnake bite in the Oakland area in Pottawattamie County.  From the quickness of the death, I suspect this was likely a timber or possibly a prairie rattlesnake.  Both of these are more lethal than the massasauga.  Report 126
54. 1879  Austin Bleydock, a 16 year old, died of a snake bite in Liberty in Keokuk County according to the 1880 mortality schedule. I could not find a town of Liberty but there is a township by that name, which may be what the mortality schedule is referring to.  Report 203 (not written up).
55. 1879 Mary Lesley, a 32 year old married lady, was bitten by a "black rattle" according to the 1880 mortality schedule.  This was in or near Oxford in Jones County.  Black rattlesnake is the name often [but not always] used to refer to massasauga.  Report 210 (not written).
56. **1879 Mary Lesley was pregnant at the time and lost her baby because of the bite.
57. **1880 In early June the 4 year old daughter of Robert Honan died one day after being bit in the yard in Adams County. Report 368
58. ** 1880 Rev Walters, who lived north of Earlham in Dallas County, died three days after being bitten by a snake in his doorstep Report 284. 
59.  **1881 A. J.  Barkley in a letter to a newspaper in 1901 tells of his [three year old] brother who died of a rattlesnake bite in Boone County. report 333.
60. ** 1881 A fourteen year old farm girl in rural Dunlap (Harrison County) died 24 hours after being bitten by a rattlesnake. Report 604
61. 1883 ** A little boy from Creston in Union County was bitten by a rattlesnake and died. The physician thought it was the whiskey administered as an antidote that killed him. Report 505
62. **1884 The daughter of W.N. Webb, who lived near Avoca, Pottawattamie County, was bitten by a rattlesnake and died before she could get medical aid. report 393
63. **1884 seven year old Dominick Gilleran died from the "effects of a snake bite" according to a genealogical note on the web. Report 321.
64.  1886 George Walter Beadle died in Mount Ayr in Ringgold County sucking rattlesnake venom from his daughter's snake bite, according to a genealogy note Report 154
65. ** 1887 Eight year old Elmer French died an hour after being bitten near Leslie in Clarke County.  The rapidity of the death suggests that this was a timber rattlesnake.  Report 330;
66.  1888 A person who was reading microfilms for family history alerted me to rattlesnake accounts in the Dunlap area in Harrison County.  One of these was 50 year old Jemina Bonar. She was bitten a week before her death. Report 76
67. ** 1888 Six year old Lawerence Heckathorn was bitten by a rattlesnake near Elston (Ringgold County) report 541
68. 1889 [date wrong in my abstract] According to County death records of Mitchell County, a 70 year old farmer, Cornelius Mulvarhill who lived in the NE corner of the county died of a rattlesnake bite.  The Iowa State reporter indicates that he was bitten on the toe by a "large rattlesnake" while stacking flax and died a day and a half latter.   Mahaffy 2007  Report 107
69. 1889  The Dunlap Reporter records the very sudden death of the three year old son of the James Bartholomew in their yard in Moorhead in Monona County. Report 140
70. 1889  A big snake (six feet according to the accounts) bit 8 year old Nellie Kingman on their rural farm near Volga in Western Clayton county.  The size of the snake indicates that this death was caused by a timber rattlesnake.  Timber rattlesnakes are still found in the county to the north.  Report 134
71. 1895** Ten year old Fred Finch was bitten while picking goose berries in Adair County and died in a couple of hours. Report 359.
72. 1895 One of Ed Willis's "little girls"  was bitten by a large rattlesnake on her grandma's yard near Andover in Clinton County (change this on the map) and died in about three hours. Given the description as a large rattlesnake and the rapidity of death this was likely a bite by a timber rattlesnake. Report 233.
73. ** 1895 Hilda Weller died of a rattlesnake bite in Lucas or possibly Monroe County. Report 374
74. 1897 A thirteen year old boy of G.W. Bell died from a snake bite he received while working on a farm in South Township of Madison County. Report 179.
75. 1901 Mrs. William Kraus died of a snake bite and her husband overcome with grief poisoned himself according to the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (July 24, 1901). They lived in Garnavillo in Clayton County.  Report 216.
76. 1905** Mrs. Martha Essenberg was bitten in her yard near Lore in Dubuque County and died the following evening. The rapidity of the death suggests a timber rattlesnake which are still found in Dubuque County.  Report 360
77. 1906 ** Five year old Carroll Michener, died four days after being bitten by a rattlesnake in Ohio TWP in Madison County. Report 540.
78. 1908 The eight year old Aphonse Hawes of Lafayette in Allamakee County   Lafayette could refer to a boat landing about a mile above Chantry along the Mississippi or to the township this town was in along the Mississippi.  Report 234.
79. 1922 Four year old Worth Eugene Nelson died on a rural farm east of Tipperary in Lucas or Monroe County died about 8 hours after being bitten by a large rattlesnake that was probably a timber.
80. 1923 **Twelve year old Minnie Woodward was bitten by a rattlesnake in her yard in a rural area near Farmington in Van Buren County and died the next day.  The rapidity of death would suggest a timber rattlesnake. Report 338
81. 1943 I found death of a 24 year old man who was bitten by what was most likely a timber rattler in Eastern Iowa while mowing hay.  I am thinking of publishing this information, so I will withhold the details until I submit my article. Report 269
82. ** 1944 Four year old  Darla K. Gepfert died after being bitten on a farm in the Bellevue area in Jackson county.  The rapidity of the death and location would suggest that this was a timber rattlesnake bite. Report 339.

As I was putting this together Doug Atkinson contacted me about one of the deaths (the son of one of his ancestors).  He offered to do some searches for me since he has some genealogical tools and knows how to do effective searches.  Doug quickly came up with about 13 more deaths.

http://homepages.dordt.edu/~mahaffy/rattle/deaths/deaths_iowa_title_c%20(Medium).jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This map was obviously made earlier in the project and has not yet been updated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[spankie]

Mary McGhee did not deserve that. 

[barman]

Doug Atkinson = rattlesnake bite expert

[Guest boatboatboat]

Ck worried about a Fish having a puppy

 

meanwhile vipers are devouring Iowa people right and left.

 

1886 George Walter Beadle died in Mount Ayr in Ringgold County sucking rattlesnake venom from his daughter's snake bite, according to a genealogy note Report 154

 

Rest in peace George, you were a good father.

[FISHHEAD]

George very common name in the late 1800's in Iowa(Scottish)

[Guest boatboatboat]

This sucking daughter snake bite sounds suspicious to me

[FISHHEAD]

LOL

[CarolinaKid]

pitbull is a very bad breed of dogs, i have thought for years they should be illegal to have

[Guest boatboatboat]

you thought it would be a good idea to post pictures of mens wieners

[CarolinaKid]

so 

[housepicks]

New level of ignorant with all these graphs posted.

[CarolinaKid]

Most of those guys just post to see their posts in a thread, what it really has any meaning at all it seems

[Guest boatboatboat]

, what it really has any meaning at all it seems

brill

yant

[CarolinaKid]

boat what do you like being call the best........a clown or a jerk...im giving you a choice sir

[barman]

boat what do you like being call the best........a clown or a jerk...im giving you a choice sir

line drawn

[Guest boatboatboat]

good one CK

 

you backed me into a corner.

 

Shit no matter what I reply you win?

 

fuck what to do

 

Does your mom know you blow goats??

 

 

ahahahahahahahaha

 

 

Good one huh?

 

got any weiner pics?

 

(sigh)

[spankie]

Weiner pics incoming. 

[spankie]

[jasson621]

Own 3 pit(mixes), love them wouldn't have any other kind of dog. They are sweet great with people real cautious around kids perfect pet.

[SUPERMAN 23]

Most of those guys just post to see their posts in a thread, what it really has any meaning at all it seems

 

ck, what did it mean when you posted cock pic?, other then you like seeing cock