Tipton Family Poisoned

CORNWALL

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/12/2009 at 08:55:35

Tipton Advertiser, reprinted in the Western College Advocate, Linn County, Iowa, June 1, 1860

POISONED

The Tipton Advertiser says that four or five family members of Mr. A. F. Cornwall’s family, of that town, were poisoned by eating the pie-plant leaves, boiled up for greens. All but Mrs. Cornwall are in a fair way to recover. She is still dangerous. It should be remembered by all, that the leaf of the pie-plant contains an acid that is very poisonous, and they should never be eaten.