Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Oxford, Berta May 1885
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The Covington Star, May 13, 1885
     Little Berta, the bright infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Oxford, who 
reside about three miles below Starrsville, was so badly scalded with a cup of 
hot coffee on last Saturday evening, that she died on Sunday night. It seems 
Mr. and Mrs. Oxford went about preparing supper, when the coffee was made, she 
poured out a cup full and set it on the table. She then turned away, to attend
to something else, when the little child climbed into a chair, took up the cup, 
and started to drink it, which burned it so severly internally, that it 
lingered in great agony until Sunday night, when it died. The child was 19 
months old, and was very bright for its age. It was buried on Monday. The 
sorrow stricken parents have the sympathy of everyone in their great sorrow.

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