PETTIT (Peddit) - 14 year old burned - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

A distressing accident occurred last week to a family by the name of Peddit (Pettit?), who were en route from Kansas to this county, and encamped on the Wabash near Covington. On Thursday morning, they were preparing to get an early start, in order to reach their destination before night. As breakfast was being prepared, a little daughter, about fifteen years old, drew near the fire to warm herself when her clothing caught fire. The girl, seeing all effort to extinguish the flames were unavailing, ran to the river’s bank and jumped into the water, but not before her lower extremities were burned in a horrible manner. Before night the entire family was furnished quarters in the Fountain poor asylum, and every effort was made to alleviate the sufferings of the child, who died at 10 o’clock the next morning.