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Subject: Denton.Liz.1873.Barren.OBIT



Liz Denton December 1873 
Barren County KyArchives Obituaries

Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 11 Dec 1873.
"Death from Burning. Eleven o'clock Monday night the cry of fire was heard in 
the basement of the frame building recently occupied by W. C. Reid, on the 
corner of Main and Race streets, and in a few seconds Liz Denton, a colored 
woman of very unenviable notoriety was seen issuing from the building covered 
with flames. She ran to the street and was seized, and after a struggle the 
fire was extinguished, not however until she had been so seriously burned as 
to render recovery wholly impossible. She was carried to her room and medical 
aid summoned, but without avail, as she lingered in almost entire 
unconsciousness until the day following at noon, when death terminated the 
struggle. Some colored people near by say Liz was boisterously drunk, and the 
origin of the fire will probably forever remain a mystery.

Paper not dated. Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times

"THE COLORED child of Liz Denton accidently burned last week, we learn, died 
last Sturday from the extensive injuries received on the unfortunate occasion."


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