Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wilson, Lydia  February 26, 1882
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Atlanta Constitution, 1 March 1882
Burned to Death.
Rome Courier.
Last Friday morning Lydia Wilson, an orphan girl about 15 years of age, who was 
living with the family of Mr. J. C. Baker, five miles in the country, was 
seated before the fire in the house drying a few bird-wings for the purpose of 
making a fan.  While thus seated her clothing caught fire, and almost in a 
twinkling she was enveloped in flames.  There was no one in the house at the 
time of the incident, but Mr. Baker, who was in a field near by, heard the girl 
screaming and ran to the  house, to find when reaching there the little orphan 
with all her clothes burned off, and lying prostrate on the floor.  Her lower 
limbs, and in fact her entire body was fearfully charred.  She lived through 
intense suffering until Sunday morning, when the last spark of life left her 
charred remains.

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