Obituary of Leonard Quinn Stone ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Leonard Quinn Stone Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, February 10, 1938 Burns Fatal To Three Year Old Child Leonard Quinn Stone, 3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stone of Flat Creek, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital at 2:30 o'clock this morning (February 10) of burns suffered at the home of his parents Wednesday. According to reports of the tragedy, the child was playing about the room and his clothing took fire when he piled a lot of loose paper on an open grate. His parents were unable to extinguish the flame at once and most of the skin surface on his body about the knees was burned. He was taken at once to the hospital at Lexington, where he lived only a few hours. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have the sympathy of the whole community in the loss of their son. Mrs. Stone was formerly Miss Lucy Shields, a daughter of the late Robert W. Shields.