Monroe Journal (Monroe, NC) of 9/18/1917.
SHELBY YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATH
Shelby, Sept. 17 - - Locked in her room yesterday afternoon at the Southern hotel, Miss Jennie Elliott, daughter of the proprietor, Thomas E. Elliott, received burns at 4 o'clock from which she died five hours later.
Miss Elliott is supposed to have struck a match to burn some papers in the fireplace when an outing garment she was wearing caught fire, enveloping her limbs and head so severely that she was rendered unconscious.
Her father heard her screams and on finding one door locked, went to another door, through which he gained entrance and in trying to save her received a bad burn on his hand.
Transcribed and sent by: Rebecca Sheehan-Plotkin
∼d/o Thomas Elliott, Sarah U Egerton
She did not marry.
Eleanor (Jennie) was a school teacher. She died due to severe burns caused when her clothes caught fire while starting the fire place in her father's hotel.
SHELBY YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATH
Shelby, Sept. 17 - - Locked in her room yesterday afternoon at the Southern hotel, Miss Jennie Elliott, daughter of the proprietor, Thomas E. Elliott, received burns at 4 o'clock from which she died five hours later.
Miss Elliott is supposed to have struck a match to burn some papers in the fireplace when an outing garment she was wearing caught fire, enveloping her limbs and head so severely that she was rendered unconscious.
Her father heard her screams and on finding one door locked, went to another door, through which he gained entrance and in trying to save her received a bad burn on his hand.
Transcribed and sent by: Rebecca Sheehan-Plotkin
∼d/o Thomas Elliott, Sarah U Egerton
She did not marry.
Eleanor (Jennie) was a school teacher. She died due to severe burns caused when her clothes caught fire while starting the fire place in her father's hotel.
Monroe Journal (Monroe, NC) of 9/18/1917.
SHELBY YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATH
Shelby, Sept. 17 - - Locked in her room yesterday afternoon at the Southern hotel, Miss Jennie Elliott, daughter of the proprietor, Thomas E. Elliott, received burns at 4 o'clock from which she died five hours later.
Miss Elliott is supposed to have struck a match to burn some papers in the fireplace when an outing garment she was wearing caught fire, enveloping her limbs and head so severely that she was rendered unconscious.
Her father heard her screams and on finding one door locked, went to another door, through which he gained entrance and in trying to save her received a bad burn on his hand.
Transcribed and sent by: Rebecca Sheehan-Plotkin
∼d/o Thomas Elliott, Sarah U Egerton
She did not marry.
Eleanor (Jennie) was a school teacher. She died due to severe burns caused when her clothes caught fire while starting the fire place in her father's hotel.
SHELBY YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATH
Shelby, Sept. 17 - - Locked in her room yesterday afternoon at the Southern hotel, Miss Jennie Elliott, daughter of the proprietor, Thomas E. Elliott, received burns at 4 o'clock from which she died five hours later.
Miss Elliott is supposed to have struck a match to burn some papers in the fireplace when an outing garment she was wearing caught fire, enveloping her limbs and head so severely that she was rendered unconscious.
Her father heard her screams and on finding one door locked, went to another door, through which he gained entrance and in trying to save her received a bad burn on his hand.
Transcribed and sent by: Rebecca Sheehan-Plotkin
∼d/o Thomas Elliott, Sarah U Egerton
She did not marry.
Eleanor (Jennie) was a school teacher. She died due to severe burns caused when her clothes caught fire while starting the fire place in her father's hotel.
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