Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....EcKman, Blanche Lavina November 24, 1898
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Ionia Sentinel - Thursday, Dec. 1, 1898

            LITTLE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE ECKMAN.

Suffers a Frightful Death - Clothes Caught Fire While the Mother Was After          
                     
A Pail of Water - Lived But A Short Time. 

Blanche Lavina, the little two and one-half year old daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George Eckman, of Silver street, on Bayard flats, met a frightful death 
on Thanksgiving morning at about 9 o'clock. Mrs. Eckman left the little one 
on the house alone while she went across the road after a pail of water. She 
heard the infant scream and hastened back, only to find it standing 
terrified in front of the heating stove wrapped in flames. 

Neighbors also heard the child's terrified cry, and followed Mrs. Eckman 
home. One of the Shattuck boys entering the house behind her quickly threw a 
blanket around the unfortunate one, extinguishing the flames, but the fire 
had done its work well, and though Dr. Beckwith was quickly called, she died 
two hours later. 

The child's face was horribly burned on the sides and around the mouth and 
nose and one arm was cooked to the bone, while the body was also in a 
frightful condition. She had evidently stood in front of the stove, and the 
front damper being open the dress was drawn into the opening, a piece of it 
being found there. The stove was a heating stove and not a gasolene stove as 
reported. The mother is prostrated over the terrible death. 

The body was cared for by Undertaker Bradley, and arrangements have been 
made for the funeral, which will be held from the residence of Ervin 
Lanning, 623 Bayard street, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Additional Comments:
Age: 2 1/2 years
Funeral: Saturday, 26 November, 1898
Highland Park cemetery (no marker)


b. July 5, 1896 - dau. of Geo. Alonzo EcKman & Laura Anne (Lanning)

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