Death Curve

Illinois · USA · Cemetery

In 1907 a farmer near Cambridge, Illinois died suddenly. His widow was left with seven children and no income.

In 1907 a farming family lived in the country outside Cambridge, Illinois: a husband, his wife, and seven children. He came down with a bad cold. A few weeks later he was dead, of causes nobody established.

His widow was left with seven children and no income, on a farm she could not run.

What she is said to have done next is what gave the bend in the road its name, and it is not something this archive is going to set out in detail.

No record we have been able to check confirms the events as they are told locally, and the story has been embellished considerably over more than a century. What is not in doubt is the position a woman in her circumstances occupied in 1907: no widow's pension, no relief worth the name, and seven dependent children.

The curve is on a public road and the name has stuck to it for well over a hundred years.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Death Curve?

Death Curve ligger i Illinois, USA.