BURNED TO DEATH…OBITUARY OF MARY KUHR

Information was brought to this city yesterday, by Mr. William Rosenbaum, of the fatal burning of a little girl, four years of age, daughter of Mr. George Kuhr, a German living west of this city about six miles. Mr. Kuhr had gone out with his wagon, accompanied by his two children, the little girl and a boy about five and one half years of age, to burn off some land a short distance from the home. After burning off a few small patches of grass he instructed the children to go back to the house and he started with the team to a distant portion of the field to burn off some other ground, thinking that the fire had all gone out where he had been burning. Mr. Kuhr, after finishing, returned to his house and while putting out his team, the little boy came up alone and in answer to the question “Where is Mary?” said she was burned. Mr. Kuhr immediately went in search of his child, and soon found her lifeless remains, her clothes burned off. The grass was very short where the fire was burning and it is supposed that the children must have been playing with the fire and the little girl’s clothes caught in this manner. Mr. Kuhr and his family have the sympathy of the entire community in this their hour of sad bereavement.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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