The Fort Worth Daily Gazette – September 25, 1890
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
An Aged Lady at Denton is Frightened by the Alarm of Fire and Died – Residence Burned.
Special to the Gazette.
Denton, Tex., Sept. 17. – The residence of Mr. P.C. Withers, on North Locust street, was consumed by fie at 8:30 o'clock tonight. The building and most of the contents were destroyed, entailing a loss of about $2000, with no insurance. When the alarm of fire was given old Grandma Herndon, the mother of Hon. W. S. Herndon of Tyler, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parker, here, became frightened, thinking the fire was in their building, and fell dead. Mrs. Herndon was well know throughout Northern and Eastern Texas, having lived in the state for a great number of years. Her age was eighty-five years. Her sudden death is a sad surprise to her many friends.
obit rec'd from Sherri McClure-Harris 22 Feb 2011.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
An Aged Lady at Denton is Frightened by the Alarm of Fire and Died – Residence Burned.
Special to the Gazette.
Denton, Tex., Sept. 17. – The residence of Mr. P.C. Withers, on North Locust street, was consumed by fie at 8:30 o'clock tonight. The building and most of the contents were destroyed, entailing a loss of about $2000, with no insurance. When the alarm of fire was given old Grandma Herndon, the mother of Hon. W. S. Herndon of Tyler, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parker, here, became frightened, thinking the fire was in their building, and fell dead. Mrs. Herndon was well know throughout Northern and Eastern Texas, having lived in the state for a great number of years. Her age was eighty-five years. Her sudden death is a sad surprise to her many friends.
obit rec'd from Sherri McClure-Harris 22 Feb 2011.
The Fort Worth Daily Gazette – September 25, 1890
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
An Aged Lady at Denton is Frightened by the Alarm of Fire and Died – Residence Burned.
Special to the Gazette.
Denton, Tex., Sept. 17. – The residence of Mr. P.C. Withers, on North Locust street, was consumed by fie at 8:30 o'clock tonight. The building and most of the contents were destroyed, entailing a loss of about $2000, with no insurance. When the alarm of fire was given old Grandma Herndon, the mother of Hon. W. S. Herndon of Tyler, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parker, here, became frightened, thinking the fire was in their building, and fell dead. Mrs. Herndon was well know throughout Northern and Eastern Texas, having lived in the state for a great number of years. Her age was eighty-five years. Her sudden death is a sad surprise to her many friends.
obit rec'd from Sherri McClure-Harris 22 Feb 2011.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
An Aged Lady at Denton is Frightened by the Alarm of Fire and Died – Residence Burned.
Special to the Gazette.
Denton, Tex., Sept. 17. – The residence of Mr. P.C. Withers, on North Locust street, was consumed by fie at 8:30 o'clock tonight. The building and most of the contents were destroyed, entailing a loss of about $2000, with no insurance. When the alarm of fire was given old Grandma Herndon, the mother of Hon. W. S. Herndon of Tyler, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parker, here, became frightened, thinking the fire was in their building, and fell dead. Mrs. Herndon was well know throughout Northern and Eastern Texas, having lived in the state for a great number of years. Her age was eighty-five years. Her sudden death is a sad surprise to her many friends.
obit rec'd from Sherri McClure-Harris 22 Feb 2011.
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