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© The Caddo Country Times Caddo County, Oklahoma March 27, 1902 Mattie A. [Green] Hand Maech 1878 ~ March 1902 Death by Fire Woman and Two children Burned to Death by Prairie Fire A sad tragedy occurred Monday afternoon about twelve miles north of Anadarko on Sugar Creek by which a woman and two little children met death by fire. Mrs. Hand and her two little children, a girl aged 3 years and a boy 18 months old had been left at home. The father and husband came to town with a load of wood. During the afternoon a prairie fire broke out to the south of the Hand homestead and a strong wind drove it rapidly towards their dwelling. Mrs. Hand saw it coming, and started with her two children across the prairie to a neighbor's house for protection. But she was too late; the cruel flames overtook her and soon she and her two little ones were a mass of charred flesh. Info per 1900 Federal Census Grove, Reno, Kansas Supervisor's District 91, Enumeration District 197, Sheet 1A, Image 86, line 18, Family 6 1 June 1900 rent farm Hand, Jeptha D., head, male, born Feb 1874, age 26 married 3 years, born Kansas, parents: New York, Missouri, farmer Hattie A., wife, female, born June 1877, age 22, married 3 years, 1 child-1 child living, born Michigan, parents: New York, Ireland Burton N., brother male, born May 1878, age 22, single, born Kansas, parents: New York, Missouri, farmer. |
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