Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Schiller, Mowbray Vincent  November 10, 1911
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Virginian Pilot November 11, 1911

        CHILD IS BURNED TO DEATH WHILE ITS MOTHER IS AWAY FROM HOME
A Three-Year-Old Lad Finds Matches And Accidentally Sets Fire To His Clothes---
Only Small Children In House
                    TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT SOUTH NORFOLK

While his mother was paying a neighborhood call yesterday morning, three-year-
old Mowbray Vincent Schiller, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Schiller, 63 Stewart 
Street, South Norfolk, found a box of matches and accidentally set fire to his 
clothes, dying after two hours of terrible suffering from the effects of his 
burns. At the time of the accident the only other people in the house were two 
small children, unable to help him.
When his clothing ignited the little boy began to scream at the top of his 
voice, the other children, frightened almost to death, adding their voices to 
his, attracting the attention of his aunt, Miss Dean, who was coming to call on 
his mother. She rushed into the house and threw a jacket around the boy whose 
clothes were then in a blaze. After wrapping the coat around him in an effort to 
smother the fire Miss Dean fainted from fright. A passing mail carrier heard the 
excitement and rushed in the house, but too late to be of assistance.
When the coat was removed from the unconscious child his clothing was found to 
be entirely consumed and the body burned nearly all over. The accident occurred 
at 10 o'clock and the child died at noon. 
When the mother came rushing home she was prostrated by the news. The little boy 
was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Dean, of Jackson Street, South Norfolk.
The funeral will take place from his parent's residence this afternoon at 2:00 
o'clock, being conducted by Rev. R.B. Scott, pastor of the Liberty Street M.E. 
Church. Interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery.


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