OBIT: Daughter HERRON, 1893, Chester Hill, Clearfield County, PA

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A Child Burned to Death.

  About 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, in Chester Hill borough, adjoining 
Philipsburg, a double house occupied by Jacob Schneider and family and 
a widow named Mrs. Nicholas Herron, took fire and burned to the ground. 
A little 5 year daughter of Mrs. Herron perished in the flames.
  The circumstances as related by the Philipsburg Leger, are as 
follows: Mrs. Herron's husband was killed last June at Connellsville, 
leaving her with four little children, the oldest a boy aged eight 
years. She gave birth to another child ten days ago and was down stairs 
nursing it last evening. She wanted a dress for the baby and sent the 
little boy upstairs with a lamp into a room where two of the other 
children were in bed for the dress. The little boy brought the dress, 
and it is supposed set fire to something in the room, for some time 
afterwards, the mother heard a cracking sound upstairs. She was 
scarcely able to walk, but she went to foot of the stairs and saw that 
the room was on fire. She ran to the door and gave the alarm and people 
ran to the rescue. Her sister, Mrs. Miller, was one of the first to 
reach the place, and ran up to the room, which was all ablaze and got 
one of the children, a little boy, but was unable to get to where the 
little girl was. The fire companies responded promptly, and fearless 
men made desperate attempts to rescue the child but the fire was so 
fierce that they could not.

The Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, February 9, 1893