FOREMAN, Ossa / Ossie May 1915 - 1925

FOREMAN, WARTHAN, WISEHART

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 4/22/2022 at 21:27:08

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Monday, January 26, 1925
Front Page, Column 3

OSSIE WARTHON DIED SATURDAY
Second Victim of Fire of Two Weeks Ago Buried Yesterday At Evergreen

The second victim of a fire that resulted from the use of kerosene to start a fire at the home of Perry WARTHON (sic - WARTHAN) two weeks ago Sunday morning, died in the Jefferson county hospital here late Saturday night and was buried yesterday. The first to die was Helen, 12 years old, who built the fire. Ossie, 10 years old, was the second victim. Mrs. WARTHOM (sic), mother of the family, is seriously ill in the hospital.

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Note: Buried in the Public Grounds section, in Row 6, Space 22. She was the daughter of William 'Billy' FOREMAN and Nellie WISEHART FOREMAN. At some point between Ossie's birth and 1919, mother Nellie remarried to Perry WARTHAN. Ossie is buried next to her sister Helen, both of them sharing a gravestone, which notes their surname as FORMAN, and not WARTHAN.