LACKEY, ERNEST S. - Baxter County, Arkansas | ERNEST S. LACKEY - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Ernest S. LACKEY

Galatia Cemetery
Baxter County,
Arkansas

Born March 17, 1906, Hopewell, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Died January 30, 1908, Hopewell, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Son of Alexander Stephen "Alex" Lackey & Cora May Trotter Lackey.

The Baxter Bulletin, February 7, 1908:
Little Child Burned to Death

The little 3-year-old chld of Alex Lackey and wife of Hopewell, Ark. was burned to death last Thursday afternoon.

The mother had left the child playing in the yard while she went to see about getting mail ready to send. When she returned she found the child with burning clothes and in great agony. The clothes were entirely burned off the child.

The accident happend out in the yard. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when it occurred and by 8 o'clock at night the child was dead. How the child's clothes caught fire is a mystery.

(Picture courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 11/2/09 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 11/2/09 • Approved: 11/3/09 • Last Updated: 9/21/12 • R253861-G0-S3

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