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Name: JACKSON, Winifred Gladys
Nee: Llewellyn
Birth Date: 15 June 1879 Mozufferpore, Begal, India
Death Date: 30 July 1931 Kitale
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1931
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kitale, Kapretwa Estate, Kiminini
Married: In Wimborne Minster, Dorset 5 June 1901 Herbert Kendall Jackson (1859-1938)
Children: Thomas Herbert Elliot (12 Jan 1903 Wimborne-22 May 1968 Mt Elgon); Ysobel Evelyn (Symes) (13.4.1904 Aldershot-12.11.1991 Godmanchester); Eleanore Mary (Scott) (7.2.1908 Salisbury, UK-1975)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Barnes, Debrett
General Information:
Your people made the mistake of trying to keep some monkeys captive as pets. They always fill me with the greatest repulsion. I hate their pathetic eyes and horrible near-human attributes and I believe they are never to be trusted. There were two or three of these kept in a wire enclosure in your garden. They would generally receive any stranger with every sign of passionate hatred and terror, but allowed your own people to approach and feed them and it was your grandmother who usually attended to their feeding. One unfortunate day one of these beasts bit her on the elbow. She said nothing about it and, being one of those people who would avoid making a fuss or causing any anxiety - especially while her mother was stopping with her - took no notice of the bite until the pain became unbearable and poisoning had set in. She then had to be taken down to the little nursing home in Kitale, the best available surgeon was telegraphed for to Eldoret and he found there was only a small chance of saving her life by amputating her arm. This was done. She suffered great pain, but even then was able to try and cheer the people round her by saying that when she was well she would look like the Venus de Milo. But the poison spread and she died a few days later (30 July 1931).