Walter Bigelow is Injured!

Often times it is hard to picture the hardships that faced our Chuckery ancestors.  Before 1900, most farming was done by hand.  Crops were harvested using horses.  And, the crops were typically dried in the fields before being stored for the winter.  In early September of 1896, Walter Bigelow was working in his corn field.  He was binding corn stalks in to shocks when a stalk broke free and gashed his eye.  He completely lost sight in the eye as a result of this injury.