from The Pettit Correspondent, Vol. 1, No. 2, page 14
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         The following  was submitted  by Clara  Petit Behrens (P.O. Box
       98, Cocolalla, ID 83813) on a hand-written copy of an old article
       from a  newspaper not identified. The subject was an aunt of Mrs.
       Behren's father,  a  grand-daughter  of  Plummer  Pettit  and  is
       probably the  Emmy A.  (#25) found  on page  10 of the April 1988
       issue. Iroquois is in Iroquois County, Illinois.
         
                         Iroqouis Woman Has Tragic Death
                                         
                      Death Caused By Fall From Back Porch
                                         
                          Evidence of Struggle to Arise
                                         
         December 21,  1940 -  None knows the suffering which Mrs. Alice
       Stanley, 78 of Iroquois, went through until death came because no
       one had seen her from Thursday noon until 2:30 Saturday afternoon
       when Mrs. Daisy Donavan and Mrs. Effie Fry while passing her home
       saw her still body on the ground near the back porch of her home.
       The mangled  condition of  one of her arms however indicated that
       she had  fiercely struggled to regain her feet or to draw herself
       back into her home.
         
         When Coroner  Verne K.  Bussert  was  called  and  the  remains
       removed to the Minier Undertaking Parlors in Sheldon it was found
       Mrs. Stanley  had been  dead from  24 to  76 hours. Her skull was
       fractured, both  arms and wrists were broken and one arm mangled.
       A coffee  pot had been found lying beside her, causing the belief
       she had  [it] in  her hand  when she  walked onto  the back porch
       [then] slipped and fell.
         
         At the  inquest conducted  by Coroner  Bussert  at  10:00  P.M.
       Saturday night a jury composed of J.D. McCarty foreman, John Fry,
       Jay Ehrhardt,  M.S. Harris,  Frank  Wagoner  [and]  S.C.  Salkeld
       returned the following verdict:
         
         "We find  ... said Alice Stanley came to her death at Iroquois,
       Ill. sometime  between Thursday noon December 19 and 2:30 P.M. on
       Saturday December  21, 1940.  Death due  to  shock  and  exposure
       following a  skull fracture  sustained from  accidental fall from
       porch of her home."
         
         Mrs. Stanley  was born  in July  1862 in Morgan County, Ohio --
       the daughter of Ellis and Sarah Denton Pettit. She was married on
       March 20,  1884 to  Leroy  Stanley  who  preceded  her  in  death
       November 5, 1927. Two children had died in infancy. She had lived
       in Iroquois  and vicinity for the past half century and since her
       husband's death had resided alone.
         
         Survivors [include]  brother Charles  Pettit of  Kankakee;  two
       sisters, Mrs. William Swan of Brook, Indiana and Mrs. Eva Stam of
       Wichita, Kansas. Funeral services were held from the late home at
       2:00 this afternoon and burial was at Prairie Dell Cemetery under
       direction of P.W. Minier.