Family lore indicates that 10-month-old Elizabeth Anna Smith died from the same sickness that resulted in her mother's death five months previously. The Smith family, who had a farm and dairy cows outside of Elgin, were afflicted with Milk Sickness in March of 1904. Milk Sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, is a kind of poisoning that affects people who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol. Father Ira and son Harry recovered but mother Anna did not survive the initial sickness. Baby Anna was 5 months old at the time. She never regained strength and died five months later.
Family lore indicates that 10-month-old Elizabeth Anna Smith died from the same sickness that resulted in her mother's death five months previously. The Smith family, who had a farm and dairy cows outside of Elgin, were afflicted with Milk Sickness in March of 1904. Milk Sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, is a kind of poisoning that affects people who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol. Father Ira and son Harry recovered but mother Anna did not survive the initial sickness. Baby Anna was 5 months old at the time. She never regained strength and died five months later.
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