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long time between dunks.BURNED TO DEATH.A melancholy occflrr**ne* happened in Jamestown on Monday last, the circumstances of whiih spread a deep gl-mm orer the entire population of ink place. Him Amanda Sabia was scrubbing a hearth at the hfmm of Mr. Blaio, (frith whom she was lififlg) when her clothes caught tire. Ia her fright she ran t» the well to draw water tn put it out. Mrs. Blaio being absent tad there being no one about the hou#e to assist her, she abandoned the idea of drawing water and ran to Mm. Dillingham's at the other corner of the square. Meantime her clothes had burned entirely off, her hair was singed, her eyebrows burned off, yet her eyesight was not destroyed. She wm taken to Mr. Biaiu’s and found to be terribly burned; so much so that she died in about twenty-throe hours after the accident Occurred.Wo learn that Mies Bahia was about 17 years of age, and was an erohan, her Father and Mother being both dead She was of a kind and affectionate deposition, and beloved by all who know her. Her trust was in God the Father of the fatherless nod he gave her grace to mtei his messenger Deaih. calmly and smilingly, with an abiding hope uf blissful im-mortality beyond the grave. Snatched from us so suddenly in the springtime of life, when ju-t Morning into beauteous womanhood ; a* a community wo mourn her loss with parental grief, and share the anguish of her patriotic brother who now faces the Hardships and privations of the ciap, and her gentle little sister left friendlr** and dependant on a cold unfriendly world.OLD FOOT.
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The Xenia Sentinel
Xenia, Ohio, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1864
Page 2
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