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m. Bet Jun 1882 and Jan 1883
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Nancy Ann Heller |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[2] |
12 Mar 1838 |
Crawford Co., Ohio |
| Marriage |
1 Nov 1857 |
Crawford Co., Ohioto Henry Anthony |
| Other[5][11] |
3 Jun 1860 |
Holmes twp., Crawford Co., OhioCensus1860 |
| Other |
23 Jun 1870 |
Henry Co., OhioCensus1870
with Henry Anthony |
| Other[6][12] |
Dec 1879 |
Wood Co., OhioNews-OK |
| Other[7][13] |
30 Dec 1880 |
News-OK |
| Other[8][14] |
30 Dec 1880 |
Bowling Green, Wood Co., OhioNews-OK |
| Other[9][15] |
7 Jan 1881 |
Bucyrus twp., Crawford Co., OhioNews-OK |
| Marriage |
Bet Jun 1882 and Jan 1883 |
to Henry Houston |
| Marriage |
28 Jul 1897 |
Henry Co., Ohioto Henry Bortel |
| Other |
5 May 1910 |
Damascus twp., Henry Co., OhioCensus1910
with Henry Bortel |
| Marriage |
Aft 1911 |
to Daniel Houser |
| Other |
13 Jan 1920 |
Depot Street, McClure, Damascus twp., Henry Co., OhioCensus1920
with Daniel Houser |
| Death[3][4][10] |
4 Oct 1922 |
McClure, Henry Co., Ohio |
| Reference Number? |
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32058 |
References
- ↑ Margaret Anthony Harris. Heller Anthony family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: Michigan, Author E-mail: dharris at twmi.rr.com. (June 2002 and subsequent emails).
- ↑ Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates.
- ↑ Margaret Anthony Harris. Heller Anthony family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: Michigan, Author E-mail: dharris at twmi.rr.com. (June 2002 and subsequent emails).
- ↑ Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates
Volume Number: 3980 Certificate Number: 53705.
- ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
page 228A; sheet 15; ancestry image: 14.
- ↑ Margaret Anthony Harris. Heller Anthony family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: Michigan, Author E-mail: dharris at twmi.rr.com. (June 2002 and subsequent emails)
as seen in the Wood County Sentinel.
- ↑ Margaret Anthony Harris. Heller Anthony family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: Michigan, Author E-mail: dharris at twmi.rr.com. (June 2002 and subsequent emails)
as seen in the Sentinel.
- ↑ Margaret Anthony Harris. Heller Anthony family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm, Address: Michigan, Author E-mail: dharris at twmi.rr.com. (June 2002 and subsequent emails)
as seen in "The Democrat".
- ↑ Bucyrus Journal, Location: Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio.
- ↑ at 1 pm from Bacillory dysentary for 10 days. Informant on her death certificate was Mrs E. Light of McClure, Ohio (sister, Laura)
- ↑ living by herself with infant, Harriet. No other family near. Her husband is listed two pages before, also living alone
- ↑ "There are a number of cases of typhoid fever in and about Weston. The family of Mr. Anthony 2 1/4 miles west of here have suffered the worst: the father and one child having died. The mother and two other children being very sick at this date."
- ↑ "WESTON. A Terrible Calamity Befalls a Widow and her Family -- A Dwelling and two Children Burned ---
Ed. Sentinel: -- A horrible disaster occurred last Friday night, about 2 miles northwest of Weston at Russ' Corners. The house of a widow lady named Anthony, was burned, and two children perished in the flames. The house was a small story and a half building with kitchen behind; built of pine. The fire originated in the kitchen. The family had all gone to bed -- it being about 9 o'clock in the evening. Mrs. Anthony was not well, and having a sick baby, had not gone to sleep yet. The children all slept up stairs. She, hearing some noise about the house got up and opened the door between the sitting room and kitchen, which opened into the kitchen. She was met by a burst of smoke and flames that rushed from the kitchen and instantly filled the sitting room, and very severely burned her; she instantly rushed to the stairs which came down into the sitting room near the kitchen door, and awakened the children, her oldest boy got one of the smaller children wrapped up and brought it down the stairs through the flames and smoke that were pouring in from the kitchen. Mrs. Anthony then tried to get out of the house by the front door of the sitting room, but the door was locked, and the key in the blazing kitchen; she then entered a side bedroom and with her own bare foot kicked out a sash of glass, and threw out her baby, and started to go up stairs again after the other children, but was prevented from reaching the stairway by the flames, she then got out through the window and called to the children to open the window in the end of the house up stairs, and jump out. One of the boys yet remaining up stairs did so but the other boy, who perished, came to the window and seemed so stunned and stupefied by fright and the smoke that he went back into the room, and it is supposed that he got into the bed again. He was 12 years old. The little girl, a niece of Mrs. Anthony's named Heller, about 10 years old was not seen; from the position of the charred remains found in the cellar after the fire, it is supposed that she attempted to get down the stairs, but was stifled by the smoke. After the siding had all burned off the house, and the posts and joists nearly all fallen, the bed in which the unfortunate boy was supposed to be hung suspended over the seething flames for a long time by the joists of the second floor. When at last it dropped, the body was drawn out with a wire clothes line, bit it was burned beyond identification--only the charred trunk remaining. The family that did escape, are all severely burned, the brave mother who labored to save her little family, and the brave brother who carried his little sister through the blistering flames. Saved--but with only their night clothes, and those mostly burned off their bodies. No insurance on either house or goods. The family are in the homes of kind neighbors, who are caring for them willingly and by friendly attention seeking to assuage their awful sorrow.
A subscription paper was sent around Weston Saturday, and about $200, signed for their relief, and willing neighbors stand ready to assist in rebuilding their desolate home. The widow had just got together money to pay her taxes and that too fell in the terrible ruins. Our Trustees met Monday to see if aid could be extended her by the township. Would any person object? Not one."
- ↑ "FIENDISH FLAMES.--Two Children Burned to Death.-- Charles Anthony, aged 16, and Miss Heller, aged 12, daughter of Edward Heller, of McCluresville, were burned to death in the fire which destroyed the dwelling of Mrs. Anthony, a widow living 2 1/2 miles west of Weston, last Friday Evening.
Mrs. Anthony and four children, Joe aged 18, Charles, 16, and one 3 years, a baby aged 15 months, and Miss Heller, aged 12, a niece, were sleeping in the building at the time. The flames, which broke out about 9 o'clock, spread so fast that Charley and Miss Heller could not escape. The girl was burned while attempting to rush through the flames, but the boy lost his life in bed, as the first ones to arrive at the terrible scene could see him still alive and moving his limbs, but were unable to reach him. The oldest boy, Joe, jumped from a window with one of the youngest children, but was terribly burned before escaping. He had no clothes but a pair of overalls, and Will Walters pulled off his stockings and gave them to him, and Joe thus attired went across the fields to Mr. Walters. Mrs. Anthony, who saved the other two children, was also nearly naked, and was badly burned about the face and forehead, and cut her foot by kicking out a sash. She found a refuge at David Lashley's.
We understand a fire was in the stove down stairs, and communicated to a can of kerosene, causing an explosion, which accounts for the rapid headway of the flames.
The building was worth about $200; no insurance.
On Christmas day Samuel Junkins, Daniel McCartney, J. H. Whitker, H. Kiel, and others of Weston's good citizens commenced raising money and provisions for the sufferers, and in a few minutes $200 and a large amount of clothing and provisions were donated.
Mrs. Anthony, whose husband died about 2 years ago, owns about 80 acres of land, where she lived.
The property was formerly owned by Earl Merry and Chas. Everrs, of this place. Mr. Merry informs us that since her husband's death Mrs. Anthony herself has paid off nearly all the indebtness on the property, about $1,500, there probably being $100 now due.
Daniel McCartney, of Weston, assisted by T. C. Reid, sheriff-elect, raised about $60 in Bowling Green last Saturday for Mrs. Anthony."
- ↑ "A sad Christmas day came to Mrs. Nancy Anthony and Mr. Ed Heller who live near Weston in Wood County and who are the daughter and son of Joseph Heller formerly of Holmes Township in this county and who with the victims are well known to many readers of the JOURNAL. The following letter will explain the sad event:
Weston, wood county, Ohio, December 25, 1880.
Mr. William Light;
Dear Sir:
I write you these few lines to let you know of the fearful catastrophe that befel the family of Nancy Anthony on Christmas Eve. She had a slight chill in the evening and went to bed early, the children going soon after; before going, however, Mary, the little daughter of Ed Heller, took a stick, pushed the fire in the stove to one side covered the coals with ashes and it must be that she thoughtlessly put the burning stick under the stove among the kindling wood. But however this may be the family were all sleeping upstairs, there being Nancy and six children in all. At a little before 9:00 the family were aroused by the burning house. Nancy took two children and was obliged to go out of a window and two more got out one by jumping out of the window above and the other went below and got out but was badly burned; but Ed Heller's little Mary and Nancy's second oldest boy Charlie, perished in the flames. One of the bodies was got out before all the flesh was burned up the other burned almost entirely up, there being but a few bones left. But I must turn from this heartrouding scene to tell you that Nancy in her second attempt to rescue the children was badly burned and is under the care of a Physician, she is getting good treatment and will recover. But everything in the house and cellar is lost-every stitch, and the boys that got out were found on the fence and had to be covered before they could be moved. The neighbors are poor but generous and by the protecting care of an all wise providence who tempers the wind to the shorn and lambs, they will be cared for and Nancy will not be allowed to suffer in her afflictions. But I tell you we need help at once from everyone that can spare it and I hope some of the folks out in Crawford county will come and manage things and help all you can. They need all the help and more yet then they can get. You might furnish this news to the Bucyrus JOURNAL. Excepting this terrible calamity the folks generally are all well here and hoping you all the same with remembrance to all I am: Lucinda Morgan.
This terrible event calls for not only the sympathy, but that active sympathy of all. And the activity should be shown by works. In the absence of Mr. William Light and other friends the JOURNAL suggests a liberal donation from all who have human sympathy in their hearts. The JOURNAL will print the names and amount given of all those generous friends and readers who may leave A SUBSCRIPTION for them at the JOURNAL office and will give them a receipt for the same." (furnished to me by Martha Althouse Keller)
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