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The Farmerville Gazette
Wednesday, 5 Apr 1899, page 3, column 2

"A HORRIBLE DEATH. Mrs. Riley Agerton, an aged lady, who lived alone with her 
husband in the Carroll neighborhood, met with a sad and horrible death Monday 
afternoon. It is supposed that she was trying to kindle a fire in the stove for 
the purpose of cooking supper, and that in so doing her clothes caught fire. 
When her husband, who likewise is almost helpless from old age, reached the house 
he found his wife lying on the floor dead, her face downward. Her clothes were yet 
burning and Mr. Agerton reached the house just in time to save the building from 
being consumed. At the time she was found Mrs. Agerton was barely burned to the 
extent that death would have followed from the burns alone, and it is hoped that 
heart failure, produced by fright, might have been the cause of her death. At any 
rate, her fate was sad enough."

[Note: Susannah Beaird (1822-1899) was the daughter of William Beaird and Zilphia 
Dunn, early settlers of Union Parish. She married Riley Agerton in 1845, Bibb Co AL 
and left numerous descendents in Union Parish and Union Co AR.]

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The Farmerville Gazette
Wednesday, 12 Apr 1899, page 3, column 2

"Mr. Agerton informs us that he and his friends are now satisfied that his wife, who 
was found dead last week and her clothes burning, died from heart failure and not from 
the effects of burns. It is supposed that she fell dead in front of the stove after 
which a coal dropped on the floor and ignited her clothing."

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