OBIT: Hannah BUCK, 1918, Grazierville, Blair County, PA

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GRAZIERVILLE WOMAN, BADLY BURNED, IS DEAD

  Going to her bedroom on Tuesday night with a lighted lamp, Mrs. 
Hannah Buck, of Grazierville, let the lamp fall, her clothing catching 
fire from the flame and she was so badly burned that death relieved her 
of her suffering an hour later.
  The woman and her daughter, Mary Buck, live alone since a son joined 
the army.  The elder woman about 10 o'clock started for the second 
floor of their home, carrying an old-fashioned coal oil lamp.  She 
barely had time to reach her room when the daughter on the first floor 
heard the lamp crash to the floor.  The younger woman hurried upstairs 
and found the bedroom a mass of flames.  Her mother was lying on the 
floor and her clothing was burning.
  Until the daughter had gone to kitchen to secure a bucket of water 
and reached her mother's die again, the flames had done their work.  
The woman had inhaled the flames and died a half hour later without 
regaining consciousness.  Dr. L. F. Crawford of Tyrone had been 
summoned but the woman died shortly before he reached the place.
  Mrs. Buck some time ago had sustained a paralytic stroke but had 
partially recovered.  It is thought that while walking across the 
bedroom floor she was stricken again and fell to the floor, letting the 
lamp drop from her hand.  The daughter succeeded in extinguishing the 
flames in the room before much damage was done.
  Mrs. Buck was 76 years of age and spent the greater portion of her 
life near Tyrone.  She was the widow of Miles Buck, a widely known 
Civil war veteran.  The only survivors are the daughter and a son, 
Henry F. Buck, who some time ago volunteered in the signal corps of the 
spruce division of the national army and is located at Vancouver, Wash.  
She was a member of the Grazierville Methodist church.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, April 25, 1918