Individual Details

Death

The little two months infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Furr who reside a short distance east of town was scalded to death Saturday afternoon, the particulars of which are as follows : Mrs. Furr had gone over to her husband's store which is only a short distance from their home, leaving her little four year old daughter with the baby. The little girl picked up the baby and started over to the store and as she was carrying it in front of her, could not see ahead so stumbled over a kettle of boiling water which was sitting in the yard over a fire and the infant dropped into the kettle. The little girl screamed for her mother and reached her hands into the boiling water and tried to pull the babe out. Mrs. Furr reached the scene in a moment and lifted the child out and summoned medical aid but it was so terribly scalded that it died within a short time. The little girl's hands and arms were fearfully scalded in her attempt to rescue her little baby brother. The funeral of the little one took place yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. W. A. Stuckey conducting services at the residence. The interment was made in Wilson's Chapel Cemetery.
McKinney Daily Courier, McKinney, Texas, Monday, August 8, 1904