Obituaries:  Mrs. Margaret Clark, Sabine Parish       C-462
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 23, 1955
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Mrs. Margaret Clark

  23 Dec 1955 - Mrs. Margaret Clark, of Greenville, Texas died
at 8:25 p.m. in the hospital Saturday after being severely burned
in the kitchen of her home about 1:30 Saturday afternoon.

  Mrs. Clark's desperate cries for held were heard by Birdie
Griffin, colored maid of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Lake who was hanging
out clothes in the back yard of the Lake homed which joins Mrs.
Clark's property.

  The brave maid battered down a locked screen to find Mrs.
Clark sitting in a hallway adjoining the kitchen. Her clothes
were burned completely off but she was still conscious. After
calling the fire department, the maid returned to do what she
could for Mrs. Clard until help arrived.

  Fireman believed a stove ignited Mrs. Clark's clothing. An
imprint of her body was left on the linoleum where she lay for a
time as her clothes burned.

  Evidently she recovered consciousness, stumbled to the
bedroom and fell on the bed where she tried unsuccessfully to
open a window to call for help, failed and finally crawled into
the hall where her cries were heard.

  At the hospital, where she was taken in an ambulance,
attendants held little hope for her after it was learned she had
suffered second and third degree bu4rns over her entire body.

  Mrs. Clark was born on April 3, 1881 and had made her home in
Greenville for a number of years.

  Last rites were conducted by Rev. E. E. Hancock, pastor of
the Grace Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Clark had been a
member for nearly 50 years.

  As requested by the deceased the remains were cremated and
the ashes placed in the East Mount Cemetery.

  Surviving are one son, Cecil B. Reid, of Ingleside and one
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth DeLacerda, of Many, three brothers and
two sisters, and four grandchildren.