Melancholy Event.—A few days since, in Pymatuning township, Pa. Mrs. Rhoda Pettit, consort of Mr. Isaac Pettit, who was subject to fits, being alone in the dwelling of her husband except three small children and an infant in her arms, took a fit, as is supposed, and fell into the fire, where the infant was roasted to death, and she was so severely burnt, that she died on the next day. The child was about three weeks old. The eldest boy assisted in getting his mother out of the fire, and alarmed the neighbors.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, May 22, 1832, p. 1.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, May 22, 1832, p. 1.
Melancholy Event.—A few days since, in Pymatuning township, Pa. Mrs. Rhoda Pettit, consort of Mr. Isaac Pettit, who was subject to fits, being alone in the dwelling of her husband except three small children and an infant in her arms, took a fit, as is supposed, and fell into the fire, where the infant was roasted to death, and she was so severely burnt, that she died on the next day. The child was about three weeks old. The eldest boy assisted in getting his mother out of the fire, and alarmed the neighbors.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, May 22, 1832, p. 1.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, May 22, 1832, p. 1.
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