Mary Eliza Ervin
1845 - 1923
AGED WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN
DWELLING FIRE AT RICHLANDS
Miss Eliza Ervin, burned to death in a dwelling house fire near Richlands last Wednesday, was a great-aunt of Mrs. Oren Bruton and Miss Maria Ervin, of Kinston, and was extensively related throughout this section, it was said today. Miss Ervin, first reported to have been a septuagenarian, was 90 [sic, she was 77] years of age and very feeble, it was stated. She was partly crippled.
The origin of the fire was not stated in the meagre [meager] reports of the tragedy had here. When the country home of Paul Ervin, nephew of Miss Ervin, caught afire the aged woman was unable to make her escape and help arrived too late to effect her rescue. The house was entirely consumed. The body was recovered after the debris had cooled. Mr. Ervin and the other members of his family were away from home when the fire started.
Miss Ervin was well-known in the vicinity of Richlands. The funeral was understood to have been held Thursday. Local relations went to that town shortly after the tragedy.
- Source: The Daily Free Press | Kinston, North Carolina | p. 1 | 19 January 1923 | clipping shared by Kathleen Bond | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 18 November 2016.
1845 - 1923
AGED WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN
DWELLING FIRE AT RICHLANDS
Miss Eliza Ervin, burned to death in a dwelling house fire near Richlands last Wednesday, was a great-aunt of Mrs. Oren Bruton and Miss Maria Ervin, of Kinston, and was extensively related throughout this section, it was said today. Miss Ervin, first reported to have been a septuagenarian, was 90 [sic, she was 77] years of age and very feeble, it was stated. She was partly crippled.
The origin of the fire was not stated in the meagre [meager] reports of the tragedy had here. When the country home of Paul Ervin, nephew of Miss Ervin, caught afire the aged woman was unable to make her escape and help arrived too late to effect her rescue. The house was entirely consumed. The body was recovered after the debris had cooled. Mr. Ervin and the other members of his family were away from home when the fire started.
Miss Ervin was well-known in the vicinity of Richlands. The funeral was understood to have been held Thursday. Local relations went to that town shortly after the tragedy.
- Source: The Daily Free Press | Kinston, North Carolina | p. 1 | 19 January 1923 | clipping shared by Kathleen Bond | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 18 November 2016.
Mary Eliza Ervin
1845 - 1923
AGED WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN
DWELLING FIRE AT RICHLANDS
Miss Eliza Ervin, burned to death in a dwelling house fire near Richlands last Wednesday, was a great-aunt of Mrs. Oren Bruton and Miss Maria Ervin, of Kinston, and was extensively related throughout this section, it was said today. Miss Ervin, first reported to have been a septuagenarian, was 90 [sic, she was 77] years of age and very feeble, it was stated. She was partly crippled.
The origin of the fire was not stated in the meagre [meager] reports of the tragedy had here. When the country home of Paul Ervin, nephew of Miss Ervin, caught afire the aged woman was unable to make her escape and help arrived too late to effect her rescue. The house was entirely consumed. The body was recovered after the debris had cooled. Mr. Ervin and the other members of his family were away from home when the fire started.
Miss Ervin was well-known in the vicinity of Richlands. The funeral was understood to have been held Thursday. Local relations went to that town shortly after the tragedy.
- Source: The Daily Free Press | Kinston, North Carolina | p. 1 | 19 January 1923 | clipping shared by Kathleen Bond | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 18 November 2016.
1845 - 1923
AGED WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN
DWELLING FIRE AT RICHLANDS
Miss Eliza Ervin, burned to death in a dwelling house fire near Richlands last Wednesday, was a great-aunt of Mrs. Oren Bruton and Miss Maria Ervin, of Kinston, and was extensively related throughout this section, it was said today. Miss Ervin, first reported to have been a septuagenarian, was 90 [sic, she was 77] years of age and very feeble, it was stated. She was partly crippled.
The origin of the fire was not stated in the meagre [meager] reports of the tragedy had here. When the country home of Paul Ervin, nephew of Miss Ervin, caught afire the aged woman was unable to make her escape and help arrived too late to effect her rescue. The house was entirely consumed. The body was recovered after the debris had cooled. Mr. Ervin and the other members of his family were away from home when the fire started.
Miss Ervin was well-known in the vicinity of Richlands. The funeral was understood to have been held Thursday. Local relations went to that town shortly after the tragedy.
- Source: The Daily Free Press | Kinston, North Carolina | p. 1 | 19 January 1923 | clipping shared by Kathleen Bond | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley | 18 November 2016.
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