OBIT: Son DUNN, 1852, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HORRIBLE DEATH - On Wednesday last, a little son of Mrs. Dunn, residing 
on the basin, came to his death in a most shocking and  lamentable 
manner.  He was out of doors playing, and becoming cold he sook [took] 
an armful of shavings, went into the home, placed them on the stove-
plate and then sat down in front of the stove to warm himself.  In an 
instant his clothes took fire, and before any assistance came he burned 
to a crisp.  The mother is a poor widow (her husband having been killed 
on the railroad last Spring) and makes a procarious living by washing, 
at which she was engaged, from home, at the time the deplorable 
accident occured.

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, November 24, 1852