Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock the home of Mrs. Ida R. Staton, located three miles from town, burned to the ground. Only the furniture and some other things on the first floor were saved.
Miss Catherine Staton went home yesterday afternoon on the school truck and arrived there about 5 o’clock. She at once went into the house, entering the pantry in the rear. After this she went out the back door, and while standing there with Mr. Paul Lawrence she discovered the house was afire.
Mr. Lawrence, with others, did all they could to rescue the furnishing on the upper floor, but the fire had gained such headway that when they opened the upstairs door they came near being suffocated with smoke.
They went to work as well as they could and succeeded in saving much of the furniture from the first floor.
Within less than two hours the building was burned to the ground and there was nothing left of this handsome home but the pillars and chimneys.
At the time of the fire Mrs. Staton was at the home of Mr. James Lawrence nearby and the son of Mr. Henry Staton was in town.
No one seems to know what caused the fire, but it is thought that it was the result of defective wiring, as the fire is supposed to have started in one of the closets upstairs.
It is stated that there were two policies covering the home for $5,000 each.
From the front page of The Daily Southerner, Tarboro, N.C., May 17, 1922
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