The stone for little Nora Yeager is gone, but she was evidently born in 1889 or 1890 and died in 1891 or 1892. Her father James Lafayette Yeager died of typhoid fever in October 1890. One day not long after his death, her mother Marietta Wayne Yeager Yeager gave Nora a bath outside, where she could heat water over an open fire, and wrapped her in a flannel bath robe. The little girl toddled close to the fire and a live coal fell out on the bathrobe and sent it up in flames and smoke. The child lived 2 or 3 days, but the doctor said she died more of inhaling the smoke and ashes of the robe. (Account given to me in 1993 by baby Nora's niece Minnie Quinn Lucas, as told to her by her mother Minnie Felicia Yeager Quinn, older sister of Nora./eyj)
The stone for little Nora Yeager is gone, but she was evidently born in 1889 or 1890 and died in 1891 or 1892. Her father James Lafayette Yeager died of typhoid fever in October 1890. One day not long after his death, her mother Marietta Wayne Yeager Yeager gave Nora a bath outside, where she could heat water over an open fire, and wrapped her in a flannel bath robe. The little girl toddled close to the fire and a live coal fell out on the bathrobe and sent it up in flames and smoke. The child lived 2 or 3 days, but the doctor said she died more of inhaling the smoke and ashes of the robe. (Account given to me in 1993 by baby Nora's niece Minnie Quinn Lucas, as told to her by her mother Minnie Felicia Yeager Quinn, older sister of Nora./eyj)
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Infant daughter of James LaFayette Yeager and Marietta Wayne Yeager Yeager
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