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Maude Seaman Pettit

Birth	:	1881
Death	:	14 Aug 1910 Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Oak Hill Cemetery, Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.5628014, -95.1444016
Inscription	:	Mother
Description	:	Atchison Daily Champion, Monday, 15 August 1910 WOMAN DIED FROM BURNS Mrs. Wm. Pettit Poured Coal Oil on Live Coals and Two Houses Were Burned. Mrs. Wm. Pettit, 28 years old, died this morning at 3:30 from burns she received late yesterday afternoon when the house in which the Pettits lived, 830 Laramie street, was destroyed. It's the old story so often told of the can of coal oil and live coals. Mrs. Pettit poured oil into the stove to start a fire. an explosion occurred while she was holding the can in her hands, and almost instantly her clothing... Read More	Atchison Daily Champion, Monday, 15 August 1910 WOMAN DIED FROM BURNS Mrs. Wm. Pettit Poured Coal Oil on Live Coals and Two Houses Were Burned. Mrs. Wm. Pettit, 28 years old, died this morning at 3:30 from burns she received late yesterday afternoon when the house in which the Pettits lived, 830 Laramie street, was destroyed. It's the old story so often told of the can of coal oil and live coals. Mrs. Pettit poured oil into the stove to start a fire. an explosion occurred while she was holding the can in her hands, and almost instantly her clothing was a mass of flames. She ran out doors screaming, and Mrs. John James, living next door ran out with a blanket and threw it around the burning woman. Practically all of Mrs. Pettit's clothing was burned from her body when she was wrapped in the blanket. Mrs. Pettit was carried into Mrs. James' home a few feet away and doctors were called. Later she was removed to her mother's home where she died. In many place on her body the flesh was burned off in large pieces. She was not burned a great deal on the face, and it is believed that the inhalation of smoke when Mrs. Pettit rushed back into the burning house to get a child hastened her death. When the burning woman ran out of doors one of her children, two and a half years old, followed the mother and grabbed her dress. The child's hand was quite badly burned. There seems to be nothing in the story that Mrs. Pettit fainted and fell on the stove, as Chief Compton sent a man in the house to talk with the burned woman, and she told him she was pouring oil in the stove when the explosion occurred, and the fact that she ran out doors would indicate that she did not have a fit or fainting spell. When the fire department reached the house it was in flames, but they extinguished the blaze before it burned down. A small house occupied by Mrs. Redmond, a colored widow, caught fire but her belongings were removed. Both houses belong to Mrs. James, formerly Mrs. J. T. Tidrow, and were insured. The Petitis are poverty stricken. The husband works at Thayer's foundry. Chief Compton says that the beds in the house consisted of bare bedsteads with only hay on them. The children may be sent to the Orphans Home. The funeral wil occur tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the residence the interment being in Oak Hill cemetery.

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Maude Seaman Pettit death on 14 Aug 1910 in Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 39.5628014
Longitude: -95.1444016

Family Members:

Parent

James Kentna Seaman

(1856 - 1939)

Angie M. Maddox Seaman

(1855 - 1921)

Spouse

William Elsworth Pettit

(1871 - 1958)

Siblings

Mabel Lois Seaman Pollick

(1886 - 1940)

Children

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Spriggs Family Cemetery (Defunct)
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5564400, -95.1434100

2. Yoakum Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5522600, -95.1611400

3. Mount Saint Scholastica Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5524788, -95.1274185

4. Trinity Episcopal Church Memorial Garden
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5593910, -95.1187363

5. Mount Vernon Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5383200, -95.1437800

6. Saint Benedicts Abbey Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5770645, -95.1098862

7. Sunset Memory Gardens
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5978203, -95.1342621

8. Mount Calvary Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5971985, -95.1311035

9. Taylor Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5867200, -95.1055400

10. Orphans Home Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5934906, -95.1105728

11. Mormon Grove Historical Marker Memorial
Parnell, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5572319, -95.1985931

12. Sumner Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5163994, -95.1081009

13. Gore-Cummings-Nielson-Armstrong-Case Cemetery
Shannon, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.6241989, -95.1128006

14. Eden Cemetery (Defunct)
Good Intent, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5989300, -95.2163100

15. Good Intent Cemetery
Lancaster, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.6025009, -95.2275009

16. Myers Cemetery
Atchison, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.6369019, -95.1149979

17. Schmidt Graves
Rushville, Buchanan County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5616330, -95.0416950

18. Heatherly Cemetery
Dalbey, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4979000, -95.0829400

19. Hudspeth Cemetery
Rushville, Buchanan County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5682100, -95.0400000

20. Camp Creek Cemetery
Parnell, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5202789, -95.2346573

21. Gordon Graveyard
Rushville, Buchanan County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5607400, -95.0352900

22. Saint Louis Cemetery
Good Intent, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.6241035, -95.2268753

23. Ashcraft Cemetery
Saint Pats, Atchison County, USA
Coordinate: 39.4695396, -95.1479034

24. Cash Cemetery
Rushville, Buchanan County, USA
Coordinate: 39.5702400, -95.0220600