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Notes for ROXANNA (ANNIE) DORRIS:
Mrs. Roxana (Annie) DORRIS CURRY, 88, died Monday morning at her home on
Tapp street when her clothing caught fire from an undetermined cause. Marvin -
MORSE saw smoke at 9 o'clock when he went in another part of the house to
deliver ice to Mrs. Ella DAVIS, who was not at home. He had a neighbor,
Mrs. Charlie BLACKWELL, call the fire department. When Mr. Blackwell went
to investigate he found Mrs. Curry's body lying in the bedroom. The room was
filled with smoke, and bedding, a bed post and part of the floor beneath
the bed were burned. Mrs. Curry's body, which had fallen away from the bed,
was badly seared and most of her clothing was burned off. Verdict of an
inquest conducted by Coroner J. Murray BLUE was that death was caused by
suffocation. Coroner Blue said that evidence led to the belief that Mrs.
Curry's clothing had caught fire when she started to light a kerosene stove
in the kitchen and that she had gone to the bed in the next room in an
attempt to extinguish the flames. Mrs. Curry, a lifelong resident of
Providence, was a daughter of the late Harriett Dorris and Elder Eleazar
Dorris, pioneer Providence residents. She taught school for a number of
years in Providence and Webster county. She was a member of the Primitive
Baptist Church. A brother, Edwin Dorris, of Evansville survives. Funeral
services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Primitive Baptist Church,
with Elder J.D. SHAIN of Madisonville officiating, assisted by Elder
Gordon HEARON of Clay. Burial was in Cullen cemetery, near Providence.
Providence Journal-Enterprise, Thursday, April 24, 1852.
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