Amish Woman, Seven Months Pregnant, Dies After Kick From Horse
Absolutely tragic: an Amish woman, and her unborn child, died after a horse accident at a home in Lisbon, New York (St. Lawrence County).
This happened last Wednesday, but is just being reported now. Here are the details via WWNY:
TOWN OF LISBON, New York (WWNY) – An Amish woman who was 7 months pregnant died after being kicked in the head by a horse in St. Lawrence County.
Sheriff Rick Engle said it happened last Wednesday at 4214 State Highway 68 in the town of Lisbon
The woman was identified as 33-year-old Beverly Glick.
The sheriff said Glick was milking a cow when two horses started fighting, and she was kicked in the back of the head.
They took Beverly Glick to the hospital, but there was apparently little they could do. She and her child were pronounced dead.
Amish farm life is hazardous, and Amish farm families are all involved to various degrees in farm-related tasks – not just the males of the family.
So Amish women are by no means isolated from those dangers. They are going to be around large animals often, and especially younger Amish women will do more helping out and taking on farm tasks.
That’s in part out of necessity, before the boys of the family have gotten big enough to help with more adult-level tasks.
Just another hard to imagine tragedy. Prayers and condolences to the family and community.
Prayers for the Glick Family
What a sorrowful loss. The Amish often meet such moments with quiet faith, seeing in them not just tragedy but an invitation to draw nearer to God. Illness and hardship are embraced with humility and patience, seen as part of the life He gives and takes in His perfect time.
As an Amish proverb says,
“Death isn’t the greatest loss in life. It’s what dies inside of us while we live.”
Beverly Glick
Completely devastated!! I wonder how many children she left behind?? Or how long she was in that barn before being found/help was summoned?? Keeping them in my thoughts . . .
Her name was Barbara, not Beverly
The news incorrectly reported her name as “Beverly”, but it is in fact Barbara.
She left behind 6 children. The youngest was just over a year old. They are being cared for by their father and his mistress that he was seeing all year before Barbara was killed. He left the Amish community a month and a half after Barbara’s death and move himself and the 6 children from their community in Lisbon, into the mistresses home in Canton that she shared with her own children. He and the mistress are now expecting a baby as she is about 7 months along from what I understand.
The children go to public school now and live a typical English life. They all call the mistress “mommy”, so they seem to have moved on from the tragedy quickly and hopefully it won’t have too much of a lasting impact on them as they grow up.
It’s terribly sad for Barbara and for the Amish community she lived and raised her children in. They suffered through her loss, then within weeks lost the entire remainder of her family, and the children had their lives turned upside down.
My thoughts and prayers are with them all.
Prayers for the family and community
Oh that we would all have the resilience of these families and communities… Still we pray and thank God for Beverley’s life and know that she and their baby were quickly ushered into great comfort and peace, in the presence of God.
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Gott gibt und Gott nimmt. (God giveth and God Taketh) Let us remember a great soul laid to rest and the unborn child. Don’t question Why? But ask am I prepared when God calls me home…and rejoice that they aren’t here suffering in this world that is so unpredictable. Haley Straw you are very much correct…I am glad there is Englisch out there that understands the culture more than even some within the culture may understand or appreciate.