Age 40.
Miss Weeks was traveling through Yellowstone National Park by Wylie stagecoach. On August 18th 1905, he became distracted while cleaning her glasses and stepped backwards into a hot spring. She was taken to the Ebert Hotel in Livingston, Montana, where she lingered for 3 weeks before finally succumbing to her burns on September 4th 1905. Her traveling companion, Miss Hartman, remained by her side for those 3 weeks, and accompanied the body back to Washington D.C. for burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Contemporary accounts posit that the accident happened at Grand Geyser, but park photographer and witness Jack Haynes recalled it occurring at Turban Geyser. In the years after the incident, camping guides with the Wylie Camping Company were known tell visitors the story of Fannie Weeks' death, claiming that she had fallen into Vault Springs near Giantess Geyser.
Miss Weeks was traveling through Yellowstone National Park by Wylie stagecoach. On August 18th 1905, he became distracted while cleaning her glasses and stepped backwards into a hot spring. She was taken to the Ebert Hotel in Livingston, Montana, where she lingered for 3 weeks before finally succumbing to her burns on September 4th 1905. Her traveling companion, Miss Hartman, remained by her side for those 3 weeks, and accompanied the body back to Washington D.C. for burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Contemporary accounts posit that the accident happened at Grand Geyser, but park photographer and witness Jack Haynes recalled it occurring at Turban Geyser. In the years after the incident, camping guides with the Wylie Camping Company were known tell visitors the story of Fannie Weeks' death, claiming that she had fallen into Vault Springs near Giantess Geyser.
Age 40.
Miss Weeks was traveling through Yellowstone National Park by Wylie stagecoach. On August 18th 1905, he became distracted while cleaning her glasses and stepped backwards into a hot spring. She was taken to the Ebert Hotel in Livingston, Montana, where she lingered for 3 weeks before finally succumbing to her burns on September 4th 1905. Her traveling companion, Miss Hartman, remained by her side for those 3 weeks, and accompanied the body back to Washington D.C. for burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Contemporary accounts posit that the accident happened at Grand Geyser, but park photographer and witness Jack Haynes recalled it occurring at Turban Geyser. In the years after the incident, camping guides with the Wylie Camping Company were known tell visitors the story of Fannie Weeks' death, claiming that she had fallen into Vault Springs near Giantess Geyser.
Miss Weeks was traveling through Yellowstone National Park by Wylie stagecoach. On August 18th 1905, he became distracted while cleaning her glasses and stepped backwards into a hot spring. She was taken to the Ebert Hotel in Livingston, Montana, where she lingered for 3 weeks before finally succumbing to her burns on September 4th 1905. Her traveling companion, Miss Hartman, remained by her side for those 3 weeks, and accompanied the body back to Washington D.C. for burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Contemporary accounts posit that the accident happened at Grand Geyser, but park photographer and witness Jack Haynes recalled it occurring at Turban Geyser. In the years after the incident, camping guides with the Wylie Camping Company were known tell visitors the story of Fannie Weeks' death, claiming that she had fallen into Vault Springs near Giantess Geyser.
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