Marie Morse, 8, Burned to Death, March 3, 1921

Marie Morse, aged 8 years, was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Morse of Roberdel No. 2. Her mother had been out of the room only a short while when she heard the little girl scream. The neighbors ran to help, but she was so badly burned that she lived only a few hours. She was conscious to the end. So much of her body was burned that she did not suffer much.

The little girl said she reached up to put her school books on the mantle, and all at once the blaze ran up in her face; there was a fire in the grate.

She was burned last Friday at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and was buried at new East Side Saturday. This little girl was a pupil of the first grade in Rohanen school and was the favorite of all the children because of her sweet disposition.

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, March 3, 1921