OBITUARIES: MILLER, Eliza (Mason) - Warren County, Kentucky

Date: 20 August 2003
Submitted by Martha Lamkin, Email Registry ID#
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001235

NOTE: This obituary column, cut from newspapers of the time period, was
found pasted in an ancient dust-covered book at a yard sale I attended in
Louisville KY. I'm posting them verbatim in the hopes they will benefit
others. I have no further information and have no connection to any of
these names. I have no additional information on dates, or about which
newspapers the original columns were in or the year of publication.

<<Undated>>

CLOTHES BURNED AND ODOR OF COOKED FLESH NAUSEATING 
WHEN DISCOVERED

A horrible death came to Mrs. Eliza MILLER, aged about fifty years, wife
of Aaron MILLER of the White Stone Quarry, when she fell into a fire on the
premises and was burned to death. The charred body of the woman was first
discovered by the 15-year-old daughter, Bessie MILLER.

When found the dead woman lay across the smouldering embers of the fire,
and the odor of burning flesh was easily detected. The woman's body was
burned almost to a crisp.

Realizing the awfulness of the situation, the young girl's strength
failed her in an effort to remove the body from the fire, and she screamed
for help. The father, Aaron MILLER, working in a near-by field, heard the
cry and rushed to the house. With the assistance of his daughter he lifted
the woman to a couch. She was unconscious when found, and remained in a
comatose condition until death relieved her suffering at 11 o'clock this
morning, an hour after the accident.

For a number of years Mrs. MILLER has been afflicted with epilepsy.
At the time she was ironing beneath an oak tree in the yard on the premises.
The accident was not witnessed by anyone, but it is presumed that while
stooping over the fire to obtain a hot iron, she was suddenly attacked with
her ailment and fell senseless into the hot coals. She undoubtedly had lain
prostrate across the fire for several minutes, as the woman's clothing was
burned entirely from her flesh when discovered, and her flesh was cooked
until the stench from cooked human flesh was nauseating.

Mrs. MILLER comes of one of the best families in Warren county. She was
a daughter of Mr. Claiborne MASON, of the White Stone Quarry neighborhood.
Besides her husband, she leaves five children - - Virgil, Vernon,
Claiborne, and Bessie MILLER, and Mrs. William STEWART.

The burial will take place Friday morning from the residence.


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