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- from "Texas, Death Certificates, 1903?1982" (ancestry.com)
Miss Fannie Gilbert, a single music teacher, residing in Paris, Lamar, TX, born 5 Sep 1863 in Medina NY to Byron Augustus Gilbert b. Albion NY & Catherine J Kipp b. Ridgeway NY, deid on 16 Mar 1936 in Paris of shock from burn after cloth caught fire from gas cook stove. Burial in Boxwood Cemetery, Medina, NY. Informant A. Frank Gilbert of New Haven CT.
- from "The Paris (TX) News", 17 Mar 1936 (newspapers.com)
Death of Miss Fannie Gilbert, well known Paris music teacher, resulted about 3:45 o'clock Monday afternoon due to burns suffered early Monday morning when her clothing caught fire from the stove on which she was cooking breakfast at her home, 101 Clarksville street. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at Manton-Fry funeral chapel, conducted by W.M. Wright of First Baptist church. The body well be sent to Medina, N.Y., on the Frisco train leaving at 1 p.m., Miss Gilbert's mother who died in January, and other members of the family are buried there. The only near relative surviving is a brother, A.F. Gilbert of New Haven, Conn. Miss Gilbert, who was about 68 years old, had lived in Paris between 45 and 50 years and most of the time had been a teacher of piano. She was active in church and fraternal organizations, also. She was alone at her residence Monday morning when her clothing became ignited, but attracted attention of neighbors who came to her assistance. She was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, where her condition was recognized as serious, the upper part of her body being badly burned.
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