Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Seeley, Frank Sparling April 23, 1912
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Virginian Pilot and Norfolk Landmark Wednesday April 24, 1912
 
Frank Seeley 4 Years Old, Burned to Death
 
Was Playing with Matches When Clothing Caught on Fire-Grandmother Burned 
Trying to Save Him
 
 
 
After suffering for over five hours, Frank Sparling Seeley, four year old son 
of Mr. and Mrs. R. A . Seeley of Twenty-Seventh Street, near Parker Avenue, 
died at 8:40 o’clock last night from burns received at 3 o’clock yesterday 
afternoon while playing with matches.
 
The little fellow was frightfully burned, his entire body from knees to the 
top of his head being parched. His face was horrible disfigured.
 
 
 
Mrs. Martha Spalding, grandmother of the boy, had both her hands and wrists 
burnt while trying to extinguish the flames which enveloped the child.
 
 
 
At the time of the accident the boy and several other children were playing 
with matches in front of the house. Mrs. Seeley had gone down town to do some 
shopping and had left him in care of his grandmother.
 
 
 
Somehow or other the boy’s clothes became ignited from one of the matches and 
he ran into the house screaming and then ran upstairs.
 
 
 
Hearing the little fellows screams his grandmother ran upstairs and found his 
clothes a mass of flames.
 
 
 
She hurriedly grabbed some rugs and heavy blankets and managed to extinguish 
the fire, but not before the boy was fatally burned. Dr. C. W. Doughtie did 
everything in his power to alleviate the little fellow’s sufferings, but he 
was beyond human aid and death followed five hours later.
 
 
 
The father of the boy, who is employed by the Norfolk & Western railway as a 
car builder, arrived about the same time as Dr. Doughtie.  Mrs. Seeley, the 
boy’s mother, arrived a short time afterward and is prostrated with grief.
 
 
 
The funeral will be conducted by Rev. G. W. Cox of Burrows Memorial Church


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