MASTEN, (Child of Everett)
Source: Greencastle Star-Democrat 1
Jan 1909 p 1
The four-months old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Everett Masten, who live on the Sackett farm just east of Putnamville
on the National Road was so badly burned Saturday evening that it died Sunday
morning. The child was lying in its cradle near a stove and the little brother
was playing near it on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Masten went out of the
home for a minute. Scarcely had they left the house when they were called back
by the screaming of the older child.
Rushing into the house they found the bedding of the cradle in which
their little one lay a mass of flames. The child was snatched from the cradle
and the flames extinguished, but not before the little one was terribly burned.
The child lived until yesterday morning. The funeral was Monday at 11 o’clock.
Burial was in the Reelesville Cemetery. - kbz