Lee County NcArchives Obituaries.....Patterson, Elizabeth 1898
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The Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington NC) 29 March 1898
Mrs Elizabeth Patterson, of Sanford, died very suddenly and under peculiar
circumstance on last Sunday morning. She was accustomed to keeping a lamp
burning all night in her bedroom, in which she slept alone, and with the door
locked. On last Sunday morning smoke was discovered issuing from her room, and,
the door being locked and all efforts to arouse her failing, the door was broken
down with an axe, and so dense and suffocating was the smoke that, at first, no
one could enter the room. As soon as possible, however, persons rushed in and
found Mrs Patterson dead, having been suffocated by the stifling smoke. It seems
that the lamp had exploded and set fire to the bed clothes, which suffocated her
before she could awake and escape from the room.

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