Died from burns suffered when a lamp exploded; aged 26Y
Another Kerosene Horror - Death of Miss Dona R. Herndon - Another sad and shocking death has to be laid to the door of the kerosene fiend. On Monday evening, Miss Dona R. Herndon, daughter of A. G. Herndon, a well known farmer living nine miles southeast of this city, accidentally spilled a lamp of burning kerosene on herself and instantly she was in a mass of flames. The family were at supper at the time, and instantly aid was rendered by the father, mother and sister Delia to the unfortunate victim. But a kerosene flame, like a flash of dynamite, is instantaneous and fatal. They rushed to her assistance, but so rapidly did the flames envelop her that they rendered her little if any assistance, and only succeeded in getting themselves seriously burned. In a few minutes her clothes were literally burned from her.
She lingered, however, some three hours before death came to her relief. Miss Herndon was in the prime of life, and loved and respected by all who knew her.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence today from whence the body will be taken to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-19-1876
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Seldom has the dread reaper garnered a fairer and riper sheaf than when he tipped his sickle with flame on last Monday evening. Dona R. Herndon had seen but twenty-six summers as we count time, and had never been connected with any visible church organization, yet had she developed and displayed a serenity and sweetness of Christian disposition rarely surpassed. Every one who met her was struck with her cheerful and even-tempered bearing under every circumstance of life. As one who knew her best expressed it, "She had not one demeanor for society and a different for the home - everywhere and always she seemed the same."
As a friend, she was tried and true; as sister, she was patient and gentle; as daughter, she was affectionate, faithful and thoughtful. Above all did her presence and example lighten and glorify the life of home. And this is the highest meed of praise to fall to woman. And while her death has left relatives and friends bruised and heartsore, yet they cannot but murmur, with bowed hearts assent to her own words, even as she went up in the "Chariot of fire." "It is all right; it is all right."
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-25-1876
Another Kerosene Horror - Death of Miss Dona R. Herndon - Another sad and shocking death has to be laid to the door of the kerosene fiend. On Monday evening, Miss Dona R. Herndon, daughter of A. G. Herndon, a well known farmer living nine miles southeast of this city, accidentally spilled a lamp of burning kerosene on herself and instantly she was in a mass of flames. The family were at supper at the time, and instantly aid was rendered by the father, mother and sister Delia to the unfortunate victim. But a kerosene flame, like a flash of dynamite, is instantaneous and fatal. They rushed to her assistance, but so rapidly did the flames envelop her that they rendered her little if any assistance, and only succeeded in getting themselves seriously burned. In a few minutes her clothes were literally burned from her.
She lingered, however, some three hours before death came to her relief. Miss Herndon was in the prime of life, and loved and respected by all who knew her.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence today from whence the body will be taken to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-19-1876
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Seldom has the dread reaper garnered a fairer and riper sheaf than when he tipped his sickle with flame on last Monday evening. Dona R. Herndon had seen but twenty-six summers as we count time, and had never been connected with any visible church organization, yet had she developed and displayed a serenity and sweetness of Christian disposition rarely surpassed. Every one who met her was struck with her cheerful and even-tempered bearing under every circumstance of life. As one who knew her best expressed it, "She had not one demeanor for society and a different for the home - everywhere and always she seemed the same."
As a friend, she was tried and true; as sister, she was patient and gentle; as daughter, she was affectionate, faithful and thoughtful. Above all did her presence and example lighten and glorify the life of home. And this is the highest meed of praise to fall to woman. And while her death has left relatives and friends bruised and heartsore, yet they cannot but murmur, with bowed hearts assent to her own words, even as she went up in the "Chariot of fire." "It is all right; it is all right."
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-25-1876
Died from burns suffered when a lamp exploded; aged 26Y
Another Kerosene Horror - Death of Miss Dona R. Herndon - Another sad and shocking death has to be laid to the door of the kerosene fiend. On Monday evening, Miss Dona R. Herndon, daughter of A. G. Herndon, a well known farmer living nine miles southeast of this city, accidentally spilled a lamp of burning kerosene on herself and instantly she was in a mass of flames. The family were at supper at the time, and instantly aid was rendered by the father, mother and sister Delia to the unfortunate victim. But a kerosene flame, like a flash of dynamite, is instantaneous and fatal. They rushed to her assistance, but so rapidly did the flames envelop her that they rendered her little if any assistance, and only succeeded in getting themselves seriously burned. In a few minutes her clothes were literally burned from her.
She lingered, however, some three hours before death came to her relief. Miss Herndon was in the prime of life, and loved and respected by all who knew her.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence today from whence the body will be taken to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-19-1876
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Seldom has the dread reaper garnered a fairer and riper sheaf than when he tipped his sickle with flame on last Monday evening. Dona R. Herndon had seen but twenty-six summers as we count time, and had never been connected with any visible church organization, yet had she developed and displayed a serenity and sweetness of Christian disposition rarely surpassed. Every one who met her was struck with her cheerful and even-tempered bearing under every circumstance of life. As one who knew her best expressed it, "She had not one demeanor for society and a different for the home - everywhere and always she seemed the same."
As a friend, she was tried and true; as sister, she was patient and gentle; as daughter, she was affectionate, faithful and thoughtful. Above all did her presence and example lighten and glorify the life of home. And this is the highest meed of praise to fall to woman. And while her death has left relatives and friends bruised and heartsore, yet they cannot but murmur, with bowed hearts assent to her own words, even as she went up in the "Chariot of fire." "It is all right; it is all right."
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-25-1876
Another Kerosene Horror - Death of Miss Dona R. Herndon - Another sad and shocking death has to be laid to the door of the kerosene fiend. On Monday evening, Miss Dona R. Herndon, daughter of A. G. Herndon, a well known farmer living nine miles southeast of this city, accidentally spilled a lamp of burning kerosene on herself and instantly she was in a mass of flames. The family were at supper at the time, and instantly aid was rendered by the father, mother and sister Delia to the unfortunate victim. But a kerosene flame, like a flash of dynamite, is instantaneous and fatal. They rushed to her assistance, but so rapidly did the flames envelop her that they rendered her little if any assistance, and only succeeded in getting themselves seriously burned. In a few minutes her clothes were literally burned from her.
She lingered, however, some three hours before death came to her relief. Miss Herndon was in the prime of life, and loved and respected by all who knew her.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence today from whence the body will be taken to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-19-1876
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Seldom has the dread reaper garnered a fairer and riper sheaf than when he tipped his sickle with flame on last Monday evening. Dona R. Herndon had seen but twenty-six summers as we count time, and had never been connected with any visible church organization, yet had she developed and displayed a serenity and sweetness of Christian disposition rarely surpassed. Every one who met her was struck with her cheerful and even-tempered bearing under every circumstance of life. As one who knew her best expressed it, "She had not one demeanor for society and a different for the home - everywhere and always she seemed the same."
As a friend, she was tried and true; as sister, she was patient and gentle; as daughter, she was affectionate, faithful and thoughtful. Above all did her presence and example lighten and glorify the life of home. And this is the highest meed of praise to fall to woman. And while her death has left relatives and friends bruised and heartsore, yet they cannot but murmur, with bowed hearts assent to her own words, even as she went up in the "Chariot of fire." "It is all right; it is all right."
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 1-25-1876
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