Martha A. Hiler Lipford - Pittsylvania/North Carolina
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Martha A. Hiler Lipford - Pittsylvania/North Carolina
John Daniel Lipford married Martha Ann Hiler. She was born Sept 24, 1846 in Pittsylvania, VA. Here is her obituary naming children from March 1924. - Donna
The Bee (Danville, Virginia) >
1924 > March > 25 page 1/14
Another Fatal Burning Reported From Ruffin, N.C.
News of another fatal burning reached here last night when it became known that Mrs. J.D. Lipford, an aged woman of the Ruffin, N.C., community perished early Saturday morning from injuries sustained at her home. None was with her at the time she caught fire but it is believed that she was striken with paralysis and fell against a stove, her clothes ignited in that way. The tragic accident took place on Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock and she died early the next day.
Her husband and son did all they could to extinguish the flames and sustained painful burns of their hands in their efforts to save her. She lived for fourteen hours afterward but was unconscious most of that time, but apparently not suffering. Deceased was 77 years and almost six months old. About nine years ago she suffered a stroke of paralyziz from which she had never fully recovered and since then has sustained several light seizures. For the last three years her vitality has so waned that she was practically an invalid.
Her husband, J.P. Lipford; two sons, C.A. Lipford of Mt. Cross, and D.L. Lipford of Mayfield, N.C., and two daughters, Mrs. L.I. King of Bachelors Hall, Va and Mrs. Jettie Ashworth, of Mayfield, N.C. survive. She has 28 grandchildren and 21 great-grand-children.
The body of the aged lady was buried in the family buriel ground near Bachelor's Hall. Rev. R.W. Yow and Elder Frank Pruitt conducting services.
The Bee (Danville, Virginia) >
1924 > March > 25 page 1/14
Another Fatal Burning Reported From Ruffin, N.C.
News of another fatal burning reached here last night when it became known that Mrs. J.D. Lipford, an aged woman of the Ruffin, N.C., community perished early Saturday morning from injuries sustained at her home. None was with her at the time she caught fire but it is believed that she was striken with paralysis and fell against a stove, her clothes ignited in that way. The tragic accident took place on Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock and she died early the next day.
Her husband and son did all they could to extinguish the flames and sustained painful burns of their hands in their efforts to save her. She lived for fourteen hours afterward but was unconscious most of that time, but apparently not suffering. Deceased was 77 years and almost six months old. About nine years ago she suffered a stroke of paralyziz from which she had never fully recovered and since then has sustained several light seizures. For the last three years her vitality has so waned that she was practically an invalid.
Her husband, J.P. Lipford; two sons, C.A. Lipford of Mt. Cross, and D.L. Lipford of Mayfield, N.C., and two daughters, Mrs. L.I. King of Bachelors Hall, Va and Mrs. Jettie Ashworth, of Mayfield, N.C. survive. She has 28 grandchildren and 21 great-grand-children.
The body of the aged lady was buried in the family buriel ground near Bachelor's Hall. Rev. R.W. Yow and Elder Frank Pruitt conducting services.