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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: Mary Ham
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0500

This obit is from POSEYVILLE NEWS, Poseyville IN, February 21, 1908, p. 6.

"Bloomington--To be literally cooked to death was the fate of 15-year-old
Mary Ham, daughter of Sherman Ham, on the Ellettsville pike, two miles
north of this city, when her clothing caught fire from a red-hot drum stove
at midnight. The accident is without a parallel for terrible suffering in
the history of the county. The girl's hair was burned entirely off, her
eyes were destroyed by the flames and her body was absolutely roastaed
until the flesh lay over in folds."

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