ADA LILLIAN WILLEVER OBITUARY, 1899, WARREN, NEW JERSEY

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     From the Warren Republican , Friday 6/23/1899

                                                 Badly Burned
    Ada Lillian Willever, second daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J. Stewart Willever, aged 12 years
and 6 days, was terribly burned last Saturday which resulted in death at her parents home on
Plane street Sunday noon.  Her clothing caught fire from a bonfire in the Institute grounds,
and immediately her whole body was in flames.  Some boys who were near by, hearing her 
screams, ran to her assistance and smothered the flames.  She was taken to her home and a
physician called.  She was badly burned about the back and shoulders, and lived until the next
day at noon. The girl was to have taken part in the Children's Day exercises in the M.E.
church last Sunday afternoon.  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon. Mother was Mary
Ann Vogel Woolever

Side NOTE The Institute Grounds are the Grounds of the  "CENTENARY COLLEGE"
Plane St is Located behind it.So is the House of the Willever's- Woolever's
  It was a KNOWN FACT that: they had lots of acre's which they were raising
their chickens, and had their Cow, and many other farm animals, and
 they also had huge growing gardens on which they grew all of their "Fruit
Tree's"

    Ada's Dress caught on fire, Long Long red hair,burned to death on June
18, 1899-Age 12-Born 188- .Cause of death shock and burned,Ran across lawn
while family tried to stop her but she was terrified and kept running,Judy's
grandmother rembered even though she was such a young girl herself at the
time.Judys grandmother was Ada's sister.
Lelia Elizabeth Woolever




Belvidere Apollo-June 23,1899-p3

Sadness has come to the house of Mr.and Mrs.J.Stewart Willever,especially so from the condition 
connected with it.Last Saturday their daughter Ida aged about twelve years,while playing on the 
Institute campus,picked up and old book from a burning pile of rubble,and not knowing that the 
book was on fire placed it under her arm when her dress caught fire.Some boys saw her condition 
and called to her,but she ran for the house,the flames spreading over the entire part of her 
upper body.She was rescured and the flames extingushed,but not until here body had been horribly 
burned.

Dr.Van Syckle was called and administered to her suffering,but the flames had burned inwardly 
from inhalation and death followed early Sunday morning.She was a bright little girl and her love 
for books promted her to pick up the book which caused her death.She was a member of the M.E.
Sunday school and had made arrangements to attend the Children's Day exercise on Sunday and take 
part.The funeral services and interment was held on Tuesday afternoon.

My Note:Parents Were Jacob Stewart Willever-Woolever and Mary Ann Fogle Vogel 



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