Comments and refutation of the Addie Hoyt Fargo blog dated 2/15/2012
Same information, different day. The discussion on the burial permit missing has been ongoing for some time. I guess Rosemary thinks this means something........other than it's missing.
In this particular blog post Rosemary tells a short story based on................well, nothing. The whole notion of Robert Fargo taking a trip out to the cemetery the next day and noticing a new grave is, once again, fiction unsupported by any factual information. The idea that Robert is hearing of Addie's death for the first time is also a work of fiction unsupported by any historical reference.
I guess the idea of this blog is to try and support Rosemary's erroneous accusations; the burial was done at night and the burial was illegal because the burial permit is not on file.
The only other two take aways from this blog is the posting in the Leader that the policy at the cemetery matches the state law and that Rosemary can read, or Spriggs read it to her. Not like Rosemary to do any real work.
The interesting part of the Leader article is that it specifies WHO will issue the burial permit, the process is obscure. And it isn't the doctor...... Oatway is off the hook for writing in the burial number.
It's a nice little fictional story about Robert..............adds drama to a non-event.
Mrs. Thornton continues to state that Addie was only ill for 15 hours. There are at least two references of an illness that lasted several days. One in the obituary and another quoted by Mary Wilson just before she states *her* opinion that Enoch shot Addie.
ReplyDeleteEach time Rosie refers to Black Diphtheria as "ninja, or stealth" I can't help but think that although people of that era did not use those words, Black Diphtheria struck fear into their hearts. Rosie also gives this figure of 15 hours. "Mrs. Fargo had been troubled with a soreness in her throat for a day or two, but without apprehension of anything serious," This would be Sat, Sun, 2/15-16/1901. "and was attending to her duties on Monday, 2/17/1901, until in the afternoon, when the family physician was called and examined the throat without finding evidence of anything serious, but at a later call in the evening pronounced the case diphtheria and resorted to the most modern means in use with battling with the disease and made every effort to check the disease, which advanced with unusual rapidity, but his efforts were fruitless".
ReplyDeleteDuring the following day, Tuesday 2/18/1901, the patient was cheerful, and helpful, but the throat did not yield, but continually grew worse; still but for a short time before her demise she said to her attendant, "I am feeling better," soon after which she sprang from her bed and exclaimed I am choking, sank back and expired in a few moments." 2/19/1901 at 2 a.m. Addie Fargo's obit on the front page of the Lake Mills Leader.
This is certainly more than 15 hours. Did Dr. Oatway miss the onset? Of course he did, so did Addie's attendant, there was no test for diphteria until 1910 or innoculation until 1920.