Wife of John W. Woodring
The Elk City Enterprise
Elk City, Kansas
Friday, April 22, 1904
page 4
A Terrible Death!
Mrs. Ellen Woodring Burned To Death While Burning Trash In Her Garden.
Shortly after noon Monday there was an alarm of fire and the engine was soon on the road to Mrs. Ellen Woodring's residence in the south part of town. The house was seen to be enveloped in a volume of smoke, but when the boys arrived with the engine they discovered that it was not needed. The house was safe but Mrs. Woodring, herself, had been burned to death in her garden. She was lying on the ground, not ten feet from the house, the charred remains of her clothing dropping from her scorched and blackened body; her hair entirely burned off with the exception of a small tuft, and her face scorched almost beyond recognition.
It appears that Mrs. Woodring was burning the trash which she had raked off the garden and the fire spread to dead grass and straw among the blackberry bushes. In endeavoring to extinguish this she either fell into the fire or a gust of wind blew the flames against her, igniting her clothing. She started to run, calling on Mrs. Cowell to come and put the fire out. A lady seated in a wagon or buggy close by saw her and screamed to the neighbors. Mrs. Cowell and her daughter, Grace, her next door neighbors on the north, ran to her assistance, and Mrs. Rising, on the south came running with a blanket or bed quilt, but before they could reach her she had fallen unconscious on the ground and her clothing was almost entirely consumed. She was of a lively, lovable disposition, honorable, upright and just in all things, and her terrible death has, perhaps caused more sorrow than anything that ever occurred in Elk City.
She leaves only one child - her son, Richard, living at Pawhuska, Osage Nation, and two granddaughters - the Misses Bausman, of Coffeyville, children of her daughter, Nina, who died several years ago. The funeral was held at the home on Tuesday, Elder Holloway officiating. She has been a faithful and earnest member of the M.E. church, South, during the greater portion of her life. She was 70 years of age.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Jan. 2022
The Elk City Enterprise
Elk City, Kansas
Friday, April 22, 1904
page 4
A Terrible Death!
Mrs. Ellen Woodring Burned To Death While Burning Trash In Her Garden.
Shortly after noon Monday there was an alarm of fire and the engine was soon on the road to Mrs. Ellen Woodring's residence in the south part of town. The house was seen to be enveloped in a volume of smoke, but when the boys arrived with the engine they discovered that it was not needed. The house was safe but Mrs. Woodring, herself, had been burned to death in her garden. She was lying on the ground, not ten feet from the house, the charred remains of her clothing dropping from her scorched and blackened body; her hair entirely burned off with the exception of a small tuft, and her face scorched almost beyond recognition.
It appears that Mrs. Woodring was burning the trash which she had raked off the garden and the fire spread to dead grass and straw among the blackberry bushes. In endeavoring to extinguish this she either fell into the fire or a gust of wind blew the flames against her, igniting her clothing. She started to run, calling on Mrs. Cowell to come and put the fire out. A lady seated in a wagon or buggy close by saw her and screamed to the neighbors. Mrs. Cowell and her daughter, Grace, her next door neighbors on the north, ran to her assistance, and Mrs. Rising, on the south came running with a blanket or bed quilt, but before they could reach her she had fallen unconscious on the ground and her clothing was almost entirely consumed. She was of a lively, lovable disposition, honorable, upright and just in all things, and her terrible death has, perhaps caused more sorrow than anything that ever occurred in Elk City.
She leaves only one child - her son, Richard, living at Pawhuska, Osage Nation, and two granddaughters - the Misses Bausman, of Coffeyville, children of her daughter, Nina, who died several years ago. The funeral was held at the home on Tuesday, Elder Holloway officiating. She has been a faithful and earnest member of the M.E. church, South, during the greater portion of her life. She was 70 years of age.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Jan. 2022
Wife of John W. Woodring
The Elk City Enterprise
Elk City, Kansas
Friday, April 22, 1904
page 4
A Terrible Death!
Mrs. Ellen Woodring Burned To Death While Burning Trash In Her Garden.
Shortly after noon Monday there was an alarm of fire and the engine was soon on the road to Mrs. Ellen Woodring's residence in the south part of town. The house was seen to be enveloped in a volume of smoke, but when the boys arrived with the engine they discovered that it was not needed. The house was safe but Mrs. Woodring, herself, had been burned to death in her garden. She was lying on the ground, not ten feet from the house, the charred remains of her clothing dropping from her scorched and blackened body; her hair entirely burned off with the exception of a small tuft, and her face scorched almost beyond recognition.
It appears that Mrs. Woodring was burning the trash which she had raked off the garden and the fire spread to dead grass and straw among the blackberry bushes. In endeavoring to extinguish this she either fell into the fire or a gust of wind blew the flames against her, igniting her clothing. She started to run, calling on Mrs. Cowell to come and put the fire out. A lady seated in a wagon or buggy close by saw her and screamed to the neighbors. Mrs. Cowell and her daughter, Grace, her next door neighbors on the north, ran to her assistance, and Mrs. Rising, on the south came running with a blanket or bed quilt, but before they could reach her she had fallen unconscious on the ground and her clothing was almost entirely consumed. She was of a lively, lovable disposition, honorable, upright and just in all things, and her terrible death has, perhaps caused more sorrow than anything that ever occurred in Elk City.
She leaves only one child - her son, Richard, living at Pawhuska, Osage Nation, and two granddaughters - the Misses Bausman, of Coffeyville, children of her daughter, Nina, who died several years ago. The funeral was held at the home on Tuesday, Elder Holloway officiating. She has been a faithful and earnest member of the M.E. church, South, during the greater portion of her life. She was 70 years of age.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Jan. 2022
The Elk City Enterprise
Elk City, Kansas
Friday, April 22, 1904
page 4
A Terrible Death!
Mrs. Ellen Woodring Burned To Death While Burning Trash In Her Garden.
Shortly after noon Monday there was an alarm of fire and the engine was soon on the road to Mrs. Ellen Woodring's residence in the south part of town. The house was seen to be enveloped in a volume of smoke, but when the boys arrived with the engine they discovered that it was not needed. The house was safe but Mrs. Woodring, herself, had been burned to death in her garden. She was lying on the ground, not ten feet from the house, the charred remains of her clothing dropping from her scorched and blackened body; her hair entirely burned off with the exception of a small tuft, and her face scorched almost beyond recognition.
It appears that Mrs. Woodring was burning the trash which she had raked off the garden and the fire spread to dead grass and straw among the blackberry bushes. In endeavoring to extinguish this she either fell into the fire or a gust of wind blew the flames against her, igniting her clothing. She started to run, calling on Mrs. Cowell to come and put the fire out. A lady seated in a wagon or buggy close by saw her and screamed to the neighbors. Mrs. Cowell and her daughter, Grace, her next door neighbors on the north, ran to her assistance, and Mrs. Rising, on the south came running with a blanket or bed quilt, but before they could reach her she had fallen unconscious on the ground and her clothing was almost entirely consumed. She was of a lively, lovable disposition, honorable, upright and just in all things, and her terrible death has, perhaps caused more sorrow than anything that ever occurred in Elk City.
She leaves only one child - her son, Richard, living at Pawhuska, Osage Nation, and two granddaughters - the Misses Bausman, of Coffeyville, children of her daughter, Nina, who died several years ago. The funeral was held at the home on Tuesday, Elder Holloway officiating. She has been a faithful and earnest member of the M.E. church, South, during the greater portion of her life. She was 70 years of age.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Jan. 2022
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