OBITUARY :
MRS. THOMAS CREAGER died at her home in Rouzerville at 7:15 o'clock Monday evening, after suffering intensely from injuries received by fire Monday, Sept. 7.
As this paper told, at the time, Mrs. Creager was working about her kitchen when a bottle of kerosene exploded. The oil was thrown over her dress and, a fire being close by was quickly ignited. She tore part of her clothing from her body and then ran to a cornfield where her husband was engaged. He threw her on her back, stripped the remaining clothing from her and led her to her home.
She was terribly burned excepting for a portion of her face and back there was not a space as large as a ten cent piece on her body which was not blistered. She was given the best of surgical attention but gangrene set in and her death followed.
Mrs. Creager was aged 35 years and had many friends who appreciated her kindly disposition and her devotion to her family and her home, and who will sorrow with the stricken husband and children in their terrible bereavement Mr. Creager has many friends in Waynesboro, where, for ten years, he has been employed in the Geiser machine shops.
Mrs. Creager was the daughter of Wallace Dowlin and was born and reared in Rouzerville. Her mother died two years ago and her father, last spring. She was a consistent member of the Amsterdam Old Order German Baptist Brethren church and had a large number of friends.
Surviving are her husband and these children, Mrs. Chauncey Stouffer, Waynesboro; Elsie, Katie, Ola, Ruth, Stover, Lilian and Edith, at home. Five sisters and one brother, as follows, survive, Mrs. Samuel Naile, Rouzervllle; Mrs. Oglesbee, Leitersburg; Mrs. Alfred Snotterly, Waynesboro; Mrs. Amos Stoner, Fairfield; Mrs. Clayton Micks, Indiana county, and Henry Dowlin, Waynesboro.
Funeral services, Wednesday at Amsterdam church, leaving the house at 9 a.m. Interment in graveyard adjoining the church.
Source : The Waynesboro Record Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Thursday, October 1, 1903
MRS. THOMAS CREAGER died at her home in Rouzerville at 7:15 o'clock Monday evening, after suffering intensely from injuries received by fire Monday, Sept. 7.
As this paper told, at the time, Mrs. Creager was working about her kitchen when a bottle of kerosene exploded. The oil was thrown over her dress and, a fire being close by was quickly ignited. She tore part of her clothing from her body and then ran to a cornfield where her husband was engaged. He threw her on her back, stripped the remaining clothing from her and led her to her home.
She was terribly burned excepting for a portion of her face and back there was not a space as large as a ten cent piece on her body which was not blistered. She was given the best of surgical attention but gangrene set in and her death followed.
Mrs. Creager was aged 35 years and had many friends who appreciated her kindly disposition and her devotion to her family and her home, and who will sorrow with the stricken husband and children in their terrible bereavement Mr. Creager has many friends in Waynesboro, where, for ten years, he has been employed in the Geiser machine shops.
Mrs. Creager was the daughter of Wallace Dowlin and was born and reared in Rouzerville. Her mother died two years ago and her father, last spring. She was a consistent member of the Amsterdam Old Order German Baptist Brethren church and had a large number of friends.
Surviving are her husband and these children, Mrs. Chauncey Stouffer, Waynesboro; Elsie, Katie, Ola, Ruth, Stover, Lilian and Edith, at home. Five sisters and one brother, as follows, survive, Mrs. Samuel Naile, Rouzervllle; Mrs. Oglesbee, Leitersburg; Mrs. Alfred Snotterly, Waynesboro; Mrs. Amos Stoner, Fairfield; Mrs. Clayton Micks, Indiana county, and Henry Dowlin, Waynesboro.
Funeral services, Wednesday at Amsterdam church, leaving the house at 9 a.m. Interment in graveyard adjoining the church.
Source : The Waynesboro Record Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Thursday, October 1, 1903
OBITUARY :
MRS. THOMAS CREAGER died at her home in Rouzerville at 7:15 o'clock Monday evening, after suffering intensely from injuries received by fire Monday, Sept. 7.
As this paper told, at the time, Mrs. Creager was working about her kitchen when a bottle of kerosene exploded. The oil was thrown over her dress and, a fire being close by was quickly ignited. She tore part of her clothing from her body and then ran to a cornfield where her husband was engaged. He threw her on her back, stripped the remaining clothing from her and led her to her home.
She was terribly burned excepting for a portion of her face and back there was not a space as large as a ten cent piece on her body which was not blistered. She was given the best of surgical attention but gangrene set in and her death followed.
Mrs. Creager was aged 35 years and had many friends who appreciated her kindly disposition and her devotion to her family and her home, and who will sorrow with the stricken husband and children in their terrible bereavement Mr. Creager has many friends in Waynesboro, where, for ten years, he has been employed in the Geiser machine shops.
Mrs. Creager was the daughter of Wallace Dowlin and was born and reared in Rouzerville. Her mother died two years ago and her father, last spring. She was a consistent member of the Amsterdam Old Order German Baptist Brethren church and had a large number of friends.
Surviving are her husband and these children, Mrs. Chauncey Stouffer, Waynesboro; Elsie, Katie, Ola, Ruth, Stover, Lilian and Edith, at home. Five sisters and one brother, as follows, survive, Mrs. Samuel Naile, Rouzervllle; Mrs. Oglesbee, Leitersburg; Mrs. Alfred Snotterly, Waynesboro; Mrs. Amos Stoner, Fairfield; Mrs. Clayton Micks, Indiana county, and Henry Dowlin, Waynesboro.
Funeral services, Wednesday at Amsterdam church, leaving the house at 9 a.m. Interment in graveyard adjoining the church.
Source : The Waynesboro Record Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Thursday, October 1, 1903
MRS. THOMAS CREAGER died at her home in Rouzerville at 7:15 o'clock Monday evening, after suffering intensely from injuries received by fire Monday, Sept. 7.
As this paper told, at the time, Mrs. Creager was working about her kitchen when a bottle of kerosene exploded. The oil was thrown over her dress and, a fire being close by was quickly ignited. She tore part of her clothing from her body and then ran to a cornfield where her husband was engaged. He threw her on her back, stripped the remaining clothing from her and led her to her home.
She was terribly burned excepting for a portion of her face and back there was not a space as large as a ten cent piece on her body which was not blistered. She was given the best of surgical attention but gangrene set in and her death followed.
Mrs. Creager was aged 35 years and had many friends who appreciated her kindly disposition and her devotion to her family and her home, and who will sorrow with the stricken husband and children in their terrible bereavement Mr. Creager has many friends in Waynesboro, where, for ten years, he has been employed in the Geiser machine shops.
Mrs. Creager was the daughter of Wallace Dowlin and was born and reared in Rouzerville. Her mother died two years ago and her father, last spring. She was a consistent member of the Amsterdam Old Order German Baptist Brethren church and had a large number of friends.
Surviving are her husband and these children, Mrs. Chauncey Stouffer, Waynesboro; Elsie, Katie, Ola, Ruth, Stover, Lilian and Edith, at home. Five sisters and one brother, as follows, survive, Mrs. Samuel Naile, Rouzervllle; Mrs. Oglesbee, Leitersburg; Mrs. Alfred Snotterly, Waynesboro; Mrs. Amos Stoner, Fairfield; Mrs. Clayton Micks, Indiana county, and Henry Dowlin, Waynesboro.
Funeral services, Wednesday at Amsterdam church, leaving the house at 9 a.m. Interment in graveyard adjoining the church.
Source : The Waynesboro Record Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Thursday, October 1, 1903
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