Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Blue (Snelgrove), Melissa January 1895
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The Schley County News  Thursday, January 17, 1895 
A HORRIBLE DEATH
Mrs. Blue While Trying to Save Her Children Perished in the Flames.
A special from Buena Vista gives the following account of the burning of Mr. 
I.P. Blue's residence, and the sad death of the devoted mother.  Mr. Blue was 
away from home.  The fire broke out about 3 o'clock.  When Mrs. Blue awoke the 
house was ablaze.  Leaving two children in her own room she ran to another 
room and called her two eldest boys.  They hurried out and with their mother 
escaped to the ground.  Then Mrs. Blue remembered that she had not awakened 
the children in her own room.  Frantic at the thought that these were in 
danger of burning, she made desparate efforts to return to them through the 
dining room.


In the meantime the two boys whom she had awakened gained the room in which 
the other children were sleeping by breaking open a window and saved them both.


The mother still wild and frantic and not knowing that the children were all 
safe, continued to fight her way through the flames and blinding smoke.  She 
fell overcome with the heat and stifled by the smoke and perished in the 
flames.


When the citizens reached the scene the four children were shivering in their 
night clothes and crying bitterly for their mother.  The charred remains of 
the unfortunate woman were taken from the ashes yesterday and were prepared 
for burial.


(Transcriber's Note:  I believe this to be Melissa Snelgrove Blue, wife of 
Isaac Peoples Blue.  Mr. Blue was church clerk for Ramah Primitive Baptist 
Church and in Rena Cobb's Marion County history book it makes reference to the 
fact I.P. Blue's house burned and all of the early church records were lost in 
the fire.  I.P. Blue also served as clerk of Phillippi Primitive Baptist 
church for a number of years and those minutes are available in the Schley 
county archives.)
Ramah Church Cemetery
(Located on Second Ave off 41-North .4 mile --- Buena Vista)


Blue, Melissa Snelgrove
1846 - 1895





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