Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Vickery, Alice 1931
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The Payette Independent 12-31-1931
The Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, December 31, 1931
 
Emmett Girl Meets Tragic Death In Farmhouse Fire
 
Parents Awakened in Dead of Night By Flames; Mother Burned in Effort To Rescue 
Child
 
(Emmett Index)    
Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vickery, ranchers living 
about a mile north of Falk, was burned to death early Thursday morning by a 
fire which completely destroyed the dwelling house in which the Vickerys 
lived. Mrs. Vickery was badly burned in a vain but heroic attempt to rescue 
her daughter from the burring building.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Vickery and family consisting of six children, had attended a 
Christmas program at the Falk school that evening.  On returning home about 11 
o'clock, a fire was kindled in the heating stove to warm the room.  Shortly 
afterwards they retired for the night.
 
About 1 o'clock the parents were awakened to find the house completely 
enveloped by flames and smoke .  Hastily awakening the children, they made 
their way outdoors only to find that one, Alice was missing.
 
Mrs. Vickery then made a dash for the girls bedroom, broke out the window 
panes and climbed into the room, but the flames were too much for her and she 
collapsed just inside the room.  Mr. Vickery was able to pull her out of the 
building to safety, but not until she had been seriously burned.
 
The building, a one-story frame house, fanned by the high wind, burned 
extremely rapidly, and the roof fell in a few minutes after Mrs. Vickery had 
been rescued from the building.
 
The body of the little girl, burned to a crisp was lying across the mother's 
bed.  Evidently the child had run from her own bed to the bed of her mother 
and there the hungry flames found her and devored her.

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