Emma M. Maddron

1916-1936

VICTIM OF BURNS DIES AT HOSPITAL

Mrs. Charles Maddron, Jerome Street, Succombs to Injuries

            Mrs. Erma Mercedah Maddron, wife of Charles Maddron, succumbed at 11:30 this morning in Pawating hospital to serious burns suffered Feb. 18.

            Mrs. Maddron was working over a stove at her home on Jerome street when her clothing was ignited.  She wrapped a blanket about her and rushed to the home of her sister near by.  She was taken to the hospital afterward, but the burns were of so serious a nature that they caused her death today, two weeks and two days after the accident.

            Mrs. Maddron was born in Kempton, Ind. June 24, 1916.  She leaves her father Williams H. Osborn, Normanda, Ind.; her mother, Mrs. Geneva Wilson, Circlesville, Ind., two sisters, Esther Marie and Iona Wilson, and a brother, James Wilson, all of Circleville.

            The body was taken to the Rutherford mortuary.  Funeral arrangements will be announced Friday. 

(Source:  Niles Daily Star, Thurs. March 5, 1936, page 1, Mcrofilm Niles District Library)