Isaac Wheaton, an aged Negro, is in the Community Hospital as a result of serious burns sustained when his home was practically destroyed by fire early Tuesday night. Wheaton was given to fits and it is thought that he upset a lamp near his bed.
The home was ablaze when the fire was discovered, and the fire company had the fire nearly out when out became known that Wheaton was inside. He had barred the door and gone to bed, and there he was discovered on his face, wrapped up in quilts that were partly burned away.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, Friday, June 23, 1922
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