Angola, Indiana Obituary Lesson: Whether by Trampling OR by Fright [1918]

To day if ye will hear his voice, 

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14

Q: Did she know, as she entered the barn yard, that her Probation was about to Close?

 

"Mrs ELI GRIFFIN
Date: 1918-10-03; Paper: Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Steuben County Woman Killed by Vicious Bull Angola, Ind. Oct 3
Mrs. Eli Griffin, 63 years old, is dead as the result of being attacked by an enraged Holstein bull at her home near here yesterday. 

There is some doubt, however, whether death was due to being trampled by the bull or from fright.

--Mrs. Griffin and her two daughters had gone to the barn yard to do some chores. 

--As Mrs. Griffin started to enter the barn she yelled to her children

to run, telling them that the bull was mad. The bull was close onto her when she gave the warning to the children. 

--After the animal left the barn the children found Mrs. Griffin dead in one corner of the building. Her clothing had been born open, but there were only a few bruises on her body.

Mrs. Griffin was a daughter of Wesley Dirrim, of Hamilton. Her husband is a local minister of the United Brethren Church.

Nettie Mae Dirrim, daughter of Hugh and Catherine (Spiece) Dirrim, was born in Otsego township, Steuben county, October 13, 1872, departed this life at her home in Pleasant township, Steuben county, October 2, 1918.
On April 23, 1892, she was united in marriage to Rev. Eli B. Griffin, ...To this union were born five children, Charles Wesley Griffin, Ettie Mae Mungler, Elsie Fae Erwin,....The funeral services were held at the Lake Valley church, Steuben circuit, N.O. conference conducted by Rev. Daniel Clark, assisted by the pastor, Chas. Mansberger. Interment in the Mt. Zion cemetery."