OBIT: Ethel May MUMMERT, 1910, LaBott, York County, PA

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LA BOTT - Nov. 13 -
With her clothing a mass of flames, Ethel May, the three-year-old daughter of 
Mr. And Mrs. Cleveland MUMMERT, of near this place, was found by the child's 
mother about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, running about the home screaming with 
pain.  Mrs. Mummert in extinguishing the flames was burned about the hands and 
face.  How the accident occurred no one knows.  Mrs. Mummert went to the 
woodshed to get some chips to start the fire, and returning found the child 
ablaze running in circles in the house and on the porch.  When caught, the 
clothing was almost entirely burned off her body, and charred clothes with the 
flesh fell to the kitchen floor and porch. On the porch and wherever the child 
had been, the woodwork was charred.  As soon as the accident occurred Dr. HOKE, 
of Spring Grove, was summoned and dressed the burns of both mother and child.  
There was no hope for the little girl, who died shortly after, but her mother 
will recover. The funeral will be held from the house Tuesday morning at 9 
o'clock, Rev. O. P. SHELLHAMER, of York, to officiate.  Interment will
be made as the Holtzschwam cemetery.

The Gazette - Monday, November 14, 1910