Fourteen year-old Annie M.E. Farmer died of typhoid fever … and eating green apples.

Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease spread via contaminated food or water or close contact with an infected person. The color (or ripeness) of Farmer’s apples did not matter.

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In the 1920 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: Jonah Farmer, 42; wife Martha, 40; and children Lula, 14, Lucy, 10, Annie, 8, Sylvester, 7, Eliza, 5, and Jonah, 1.