Mrs. Nancy Powell

Article taken from The Massillion Independent, March 7, 1898

Aged Woman Burned to Death.

PORTSMOUTH, O., March 5. -- Mrs. Nancy Powell, an aged woman residing in Otway, this county, was burned to death last night as a result of her skirts catching fire from an oldfashioned fire-place. Her granddaughter, Miss Flora Shade, was terribly burned in trying to save Mrs. Powell and will probably die.