Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Leta L. Blackwood, 1924
30 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BLACKWOOD, LETA L.
(31 Jan 1924, Thursday, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
CHILD FATALLY BURNED.
A seven months old baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Blackwood, 2 miles
southeast of Dawson, received burns last Saturday morning, from the
effects of which she died before midnight.
The baby was crawling about the floor as the mother was preparing dinner,
when an older child pulled a coffee pot off the stove and the baby was
scalded by its hot contents.
Dr. Ames, the attending physician said the child would have recovered if
it could have survived until the burns began to heal, but the schock (sic)
was too great for its constitution.
Burial took place at the Friendship cemetery on Sunday.
The above was sent to us by Mrs. M. E. Tottingham of Mountain Grove, Mo. 
Mrs. Blackwood was formerly Miss Agnes McCormick of Elk City.
(Research:  Missouri State Archives Death Index: 1910-1956:
Missouri Death Certificate #35353, Wright County, Mt. Grove for Leta L.
Blackwood, born 10 April 1923, Wood Township, Wright County, Mo; died 18
Nov 1923, cause of death: scalded by coffee accidentally spilled upon by
older child; daughter of J. E. Blackwood and Agnes McCormic (sic); buried
Friendship Cemetery, Wood Township, Wright County, Missouri, 19 Nov 1923.)