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From: "Stewart J.A.Woolever Jr" <>
Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Willever-Woolever Obit
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:02:17 -0400

>From the Warren Republican , Friday 6/23/1899
Badly Burned

Ada Lillian Willever, second daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J. Stewart Willever,
aged 12 years and 6 days, was terribly burned last Saturday which resulted
in
death at her parents home on Plane street Sunday noon. Her clothing caught
fire
from a bonfire in the Institute grounds, and immediately her whole body was
in
flames. Some boys who were near by, hearing her her screams, ran to her
assistance and smothered the flames. She was taken to her home and a
physician
called. She was badly burned about the back and shoulders, and lived until
the
next day at noon.. The girl was to have taken part in the Children's Day
exercises in the M.E. church last Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were
held
Tuesday afternoon.

Side NOTE The Institute Grounds are the Grounds of the "CENTENARY COLLEGE"
Plane St is Located behind it.So is the House of the Willever's- Woolever's
some of the land the College is on once belonged to Jacob Stewart Woolever
and Mary Ann Fogel-Vogel In Hackettstown.
Still looking for info on this family.


Stewart

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