Randolph County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Burns, Irene Holley 
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Cemetery:           Rock Mills Cemetery
Name:               Irene Holley Burns

Date Of Photograph: July 14, 2006
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Irene Holley Burns, 7 October 1898 - 28 November 1916,
Wife of W. F. Burns, and
Possible daughter of G. W. and Jessie Ray Hollie.

In G. W. Holley Family Plot.

Rock Mills Cemetery (Township 21 Range 13 Section 27),
Randolph County, Alabama,
On State Hwy 22 four miles east of Roanoke.



Additional Comments:
The Roanoke Leader December 1916
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER",  Roanoke, Randolph County, 
Alabama for DECEMBER 1916

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 6, 1916

POISONED BY MISTAKE

One of the saddest deaths that has occurred in our city in a long while was 
that of Mrs. W.F. Burns, which occurred at the home on Greenville street 
Monday night about 12 o'clock.  It seems that Mrs. Burns was suffering with a 
headache and got up about 11 o'clock to take a tablet to relieve the pain, and 
through a mistake got a tablet of cyanide of potasium, which they had procured 
for some other purpose.  After swallowing it, she began to complain of pains 
and nausea and it was soon discovered that she had made a fatal mistake.  A 
physician was summoned but the poison had taken such deep effect that nothing 
could be done to relieve her sufferings, and death came in a short while.  It 
was only a few months past that Mrs. Burns had a narrow escape from tomaine 
poisoning.

This is indeed a sad blow to the young husband who has the sympathy of the 
entire community in this sad hour of bereavement.  Mrs. Burns also leaves a 
child nine months old.

The body was carried to Rock Mills Wednesday morning where the funeral 
services were held, after which the body was interred in the Rock Mills 
cemetery.  The LaGrange Graphic

The deceased was reared at Rock Mills, joined the Methodist church at the age 
of 11 years, and was greatly loved by friends in her old home and by those in 
LaGrange as well.  The family has the sincere sympathy of all.


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