son of Merritt R Sherman
and Lavina I Halladay;
adopted, after his mother died in 1897, by Wilson Camp (step-grandfather) and Nancy Wilkins Halladay Camp (maternal grandmother)
[Contrib: adoption information - Carol 47911703]
"JAMESTOWN CRIPPLE BURNS TO DEATH IN SISTER'S RESIDENCE - Harold Camp's Clothing Catches Fire as He Sits Beside Gas Burner - Jamestown (UP) - Harold Camp, 31 (sic) [37], a helpless cripple, was burned to death late Friday when his clothing caught fire as he sat before an open gas burner of the kitchen stove. Camp's sister, Mrs Horton Risley, and her husband, with whom the cripple lived, were away at the time. He was found by neighbors but died before an ambulance arrived. Swan Erickson, father of Councilman Harry C Erickson, smelled smoke in his upstairs flat, above the Risley apartment, and went downstairs. A dense cloud of smoke met him and he went through to the kitchen, where he found Camp lying on the floor, face down, between the gas stove and an outside door. A hole had burned in the floor and flames were curling up the door. Mr Erickson went to the home of George F Ormsbee, 1208 East Second Street, and the latter called for assistance. Engine 4 and company 6 of the fire department and the city ambulance were dispatched to the Risley home. Camp's clothes were nearly all burned from his body when Ormsbee and Erickson went back to the house after summoning assistance. They smothered the remaining flames and poured water on the burning woodwork. The fireman had little trouble dousing the fire, but Camp was beyond medical assistance when the ambulance arrived. It is thought that Camp's crippled condition handicapped his efforts to extinguish the flames in his clothing, and in his struggle he fell to the floor, where Mr Erickson found him. Mr Camp was born in the town of Ellery, Aug 11, 1897. He is survived by a sister, Mrs Horton Risley; his father, Merritt Sherman; a half sister, Mrs Blair Link of Buffalo, and a half brother, Gerald Sherman of Stockton. The funeral will be held privately Monday at 2:30 pm at the Henderson & Lincoln funeral home."
(Dunkirk Evening Observer, Feb 23, 1935, p.7)
and Lavina I Halladay;
adopted, after his mother died in 1897, by Wilson Camp (step-grandfather) and Nancy Wilkins Halladay Camp (maternal grandmother)
[Contrib: adoption information - Carol 47911703]
"JAMESTOWN CRIPPLE BURNS TO DEATH IN SISTER'S RESIDENCE - Harold Camp's Clothing Catches Fire as He Sits Beside Gas Burner - Jamestown (UP) - Harold Camp, 31 (sic) [37], a helpless cripple, was burned to death late Friday when his clothing caught fire as he sat before an open gas burner of the kitchen stove. Camp's sister, Mrs Horton Risley, and her husband, with whom the cripple lived, were away at the time. He was found by neighbors but died before an ambulance arrived. Swan Erickson, father of Councilman Harry C Erickson, smelled smoke in his upstairs flat, above the Risley apartment, and went downstairs. A dense cloud of smoke met him and he went through to the kitchen, where he found Camp lying on the floor, face down, between the gas stove and an outside door. A hole had burned in the floor and flames were curling up the door. Mr Erickson went to the home of George F Ormsbee, 1208 East Second Street, and the latter called for assistance. Engine 4 and company 6 of the fire department and the city ambulance were dispatched to the Risley home. Camp's clothes were nearly all burned from his body when Ormsbee and Erickson went back to the house after summoning assistance. They smothered the remaining flames and poured water on the burning woodwork. The fireman had little trouble dousing the fire, but Camp was beyond medical assistance when the ambulance arrived. It is thought that Camp's crippled condition handicapped his efforts to extinguish the flames in his clothing, and in his struggle he fell to the floor, where Mr Erickson found him. Mr Camp was born in the town of Ellery, Aug 11, 1897. He is survived by a sister, Mrs Horton Risley; his father, Merritt Sherman; a half sister, Mrs Blair Link of Buffalo, and a half brother, Gerald Sherman of Stockton. The funeral will be held privately Monday at 2:30 pm at the Henderson & Lincoln funeral home."
(Dunkirk Evening Observer, Feb 23, 1935, p.7)
son of Merritt R Sherman
and Lavina I Halladay;
adopted, after his mother died in 1897, by Wilson Camp (step-grandfather) and Nancy Wilkins Halladay Camp (maternal grandmother)
[Contrib: adoption information - Carol 47911703]
"JAMESTOWN CRIPPLE BURNS TO DEATH IN SISTER'S RESIDENCE - Harold Camp's Clothing Catches Fire as He Sits Beside Gas Burner - Jamestown (UP) - Harold Camp, 31 (sic) [37], a helpless cripple, was burned to death late Friday when his clothing caught fire as he sat before an open gas burner of the kitchen stove. Camp's sister, Mrs Horton Risley, and her husband, with whom the cripple lived, were away at the time. He was found by neighbors but died before an ambulance arrived. Swan Erickson, father of Councilman Harry C Erickson, smelled smoke in his upstairs flat, above the Risley apartment, and went downstairs. A dense cloud of smoke met him and he went through to the kitchen, where he found Camp lying on the floor, face down, between the gas stove and an outside door. A hole had burned in the floor and flames were curling up the door. Mr Erickson went to the home of George F Ormsbee, 1208 East Second Street, and the latter called for assistance. Engine 4 and company 6 of the fire department and the city ambulance were dispatched to the Risley home. Camp's clothes were nearly all burned from his body when Ormsbee and Erickson went back to the house after summoning assistance. They smothered the remaining flames and poured water on the burning woodwork. The fireman had little trouble dousing the fire, but Camp was beyond medical assistance when the ambulance arrived. It is thought that Camp's crippled condition handicapped his efforts to extinguish the flames in his clothing, and in his struggle he fell to the floor, where Mr Erickson found him. Mr Camp was born in the town of Ellery, Aug 11, 1897. He is survived by a sister, Mrs Horton Risley; his father, Merritt Sherman; a half sister, Mrs Blair Link of Buffalo, and a half brother, Gerald Sherman of Stockton. The funeral will be held privately Monday at 2:30 pm at the Henderson & Lincoln funeral home."
(Dunkirk Evening Observer, Feb 23, 1935, p.7)
and Lavina I Halladay;
adopted, after his mother died in 1897, by Wilson Camp (step-grandfather) and Nancy Wilkins Halladay Camp (maternal grandmother)
[Contrib: adoption information - Carol 47911703]
"JAMESTOWN CRIPPLE BURNS TO DEATH IN SISTER'S RESIDENCE - Harold Camp's Clothing Catches Fire as He Sits Beside Gas Burner - Jamestown (UP) - Harold Camp, 31 (sic) [37], a helpless cripple, was burned to death late Friday when his clothing caught fire as he sat before an open gas burner of the kitchen stove. Camp's sister, Mrs Horton Risley, and her husband, with whom the cripple lived, were away at the time. He was found by neighbors but died before an ambulance arrived. Swan Erickson, father of Councilman Harry C Erickson, smelled smoke in his upstairs flat, above the Risley apartment, and went downstairs. A dense cloud of smoke met him and he went through to the kitchen, where he found Camp lying on the floor, face down, between the gas stove and an outside door. A hole had burned in the floor and flames were curling up the door. Mr Erickson went to the home of George F Ormsbee, 1208 East Second Street, and the latter called for assistance. Engine 4 and company 6 of the fire department and the city ambulance were dispatched to the Risley home. Camp's clothes were nearly all burned from his body when Ormsbee and Erickson went back to the house after summoning assistance. They smothered the remaining flames and poured water on the burning woodwork. The fireman had little trouble dousing the fire, but Camp was beyond medical assistance when the ambulance arrived. It is thought that Camp's crippled condition handicapped his efforts to extinguish the flames in his clothing, and in his struggle he fell to the floor, where Mr Erickson found him. Mr Camp was born in the town of Ellery, Aug 11, 1897. He is survived by a sister, Mrs Horton Risley; his father, Merritt Sherman; a half sister, Mrs Blair Link of Buffalo, and a half brother, Gerald Sherman of Stockton. The funeral will be held privately Monday at 2:30 pm at the Henderson & Lincoln funeral home."
(Dunkirk Evening Observer, Feb 23, 1935, p.7)
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