Speaking with a couple at the cemetery today 9/26/2022..They stated that Charlotte was buried here at McElwee along with the rest of her family. The lady was 90 yrs. old and her husband was a relative of the Carr family. I had heard some of the same stories they were telling me and what was in the write up of the newspaper which follows.
Mary Clarkson Turek
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Louisiana Press-Journal, Louisiana, Missouri, July 16th 1874

Mrs. Albert Perkins, lving near the Moses Kelly place a few miles from this city, on Monday, met with a most distressing accident which will most likely end in her death.
She was attempting to start a fire in a stove by the aid of coal oil when the can exploded. As soon as she found her clothing on fire she started to run away from the house, shrieking piteously for help. Some neighbor in a field heard her cries and came to her assistance, but when they arrived her clothing was nearly all burned off her person, and her body from the chest to her ankles was nearly a solid blister.
Dr. Stewart and Lonergan were promptly summoned to the sufferer's side, and didd all that was possible to relieve the poor woman of her great sufferings, but have little hopes of saving her.
She had only been married about ten days.
She has since died.

Speaking with a couple at the cemetery today 9/26/2022..They stated that Charlotte was buried here at McElwee along with the rest of her family. The lady was 90 yrs. old and her husband was a relative of the Carr family. I had heard some of the same stories they were telling me and what was in the write up of the newspaper which follows.
Mary Clarkson Turek
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Louisiana Press-Journal, Louisiana, Missouri, July 16th 1874

Mrs. Albert Perkins, lving near the Moses Kelly place a few miles from this city, on Monday, met with a most distressing accident which will most likely end in her death.
She was attempting to start a fire in a stove by the aid of coal oil when the can exploded. As soon as she found her clothing on fire she started to run away from the house, shrieking piteously for help. Some neighbor in a field heard her cries and came to her assistance, but when they arrived her clothing was nearly all burned off her person, and her body from the chest to her ankles was nearly a solid blister.
Dr. Stewart and Lonergan were promptly summoned to the sufferer's side, and didd all that was possible to relieve the poor woman of her great sufferings, but have little hopes of saving her.
She had only been married about ten days.
She has since died.