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Monroe Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, August 27, 1890:
“Killed In Bed By A Snake---Jasper Keith, a farmer, living in Winston County, Ala., awoke and found his wife and 8-months-old babe dead in bed by his side. Their bodies were badly swollen, and coiled in one corner of the bed was a moccasin snake whose bite is as fatal as that of the rattlesnake. During the night the snake crawled into the bed and had bitten Mrs. Keith and the child. Keith was overcome with grief and horror that he fell prostrate across the dead bodies of his wife and babe.
This aroused the snake and it struck at Keith, but its fangs caught in the sleeves of his nightshirt and he escaped the fatal sting. Realizing his peril, Keith caught the snake in his hand and hurled it to the floor before it could strike again.”
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