Fires
On Monday evening last, says the Goshen (N.Y.)
Patriot, Mr. Wm. Lewis and his wife, of the town of
Monroe, left their children, while they went to visit one of their
neighbors, about a mile and a half distant. About 9 o’clock the
house was discovered to be on fire and before any one could reach the
place, the house, together will all its contents, were literally burned
to ashes, the four children, in whose care the house had been left, with
instructions to leave a good fire when they went to bed, were burned to
death. Their bodies were found the same night and enclosed in a
box, together with the bones found the next morning, and buried in one
grave. They were three boys and one girl, the eldest a boy between
15 and 16 years of age, the youngest about 7 years. Three of them
were found lying on their beds and as though they had never awoke; the
other from the position in which he was found, had got off the bed.
[The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) January 21
1829] Submitted by Nancy.
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