Fayette County PA Archives Obituaries.....Derry, Basil March 25, 1917
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The Daily News Standard -- March 26, 1917
FALLS INTO GRATE, BASIL DERRY 77, DIES OF BURNS
Alone in a hut at the foot of Chestnut Ridge between Fairchance and Smithfield, 
BASIL DERRY, aged 77, is believed to have been stricken with apoplexy Sunday 
morning while sitting in front of a grate fire and to have fallen into the 
flames.  Flames enshrouded the form when CHARLES GATES, a neighbor, who was 
attracted by the smoke rising from the little shanty, reached the scene.  He 
succeeded in beating out the flames but found that life was extinct.

Derry was discharged from the County Home last week, after having spent the 
winter at that refuge, and passed through Fairchance Saturday a week ago on his 
way to his mountain home.  He did not seem to be well at the time and neighbors 
reported to officials following his death that the aged man had been sick for 
several days.  He is believed to have been stricken but a few minutes before 
his body was found by GATES.

The charred body was taken to the home of BASIL GATES, nearby from where the 
funeral will be held today followed by interment in the Baptist cemetery.  As 
far as is known he leaves no relatives.  (*left sister Mary Ellen Gaskill)


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