Clarion County PA Archives Obituaries.....Watterson, Anna Malinda  December 28, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) January 27, 1864
Died at Watterson's Ferry, Clarion County, Pa,, on Monday evening, December 28th,
Miss Anna Malinda, daughter of James and Mary A. Watterson, in the 17th year of her
age…  On Sabbath, about noon, she went to the kitchen to renew the fire, and was in
the act of pouring on it some carbon oil, when the flame ran into the can, exploding
it, and throwing the contents over her clothes. Instantly she was enveloped in a
sheet of flame. She ran out to a run near by, where her father caught her, tore off
the burning fragments of her clothes, and put out the fire. As he carried her into
the house, she exclaimed, "O! papa, I am burned to death." The family physician was
soon at her bedside, and every effort made to save her life. But how little hope
could there be, when almost the entire body was burnt over! She lingered, suffering
intensely, for thirty-two hours, and was then kindly released from her "earthly
house of this tabernacle," being transported to " a building of God, a house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens." She connected, two years ago with the
Bethesda church... 

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