Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-12-24
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The particulars of this sad occur
renee are about as follows:
Mrs. Copenhaver went to Blue
field on Tuesday afternoon TO visit
her sister, Mrs. ID. b. Baldwin. On
Wednesday n,t rning about 6 O'Clock
ire broke out in TIE basement CT the
house, originating in some manner
from the furnace. The family wer,
aroused and came down stairs and
made their way out through the hall.
Mrs. Copenhaver was with the rest
Of the family, in her night clothes.
In the confusion and darkness she
seems to have lost her way, missed
The outer door and when found was
lying near pantry door sufrocated
and nearly desd. She was taken 10
| the s1nitarium where she died in a
mort time. Parts of her body were
blistered by the heat.
Her relatives here were communi-
Gated with at once the message say.
ing that she had been seriously in
Jured in the fire and was expected to
die. Her son, DR.. r. p. Copenhaver,
rushed to Blueiield at once, and phon-
ed the sad intelligence that his moth
CT was dead, her death occurring al
the sanitarium about 9 O'Clock.
The funeral took place from the
Methodist church on yesterday at
2 u. m.
Deceased was the widow of the late
a. j. Copenhaver, whose death oc-
Cured several years ago. She is
survived by number of relatives,
in Tazewell and elsewhere. She was
sister to Mr.. John Barns, of this
town; Mr.. Clinton Barns, of the
Cove and Mrs. d. B. Baldwin, o. Blue
field.
Her surviving children are: Dr.
r. p. Copenhaver, of Tazewell; DR..
Luther Copenhaver, of Johnson City,
Tenn, dentists; Henry, of Tazewell,
and John, member of the Baldwin
Detective Agency, with headquar-
ters in Roanoke.
Mrs. Copenhavcr was Miss Barns
before marriage, daughter of the late
! William Barns. Her mother was Il
Miss Ward. And hence she was re-
lated to large number of the prin-
cipal, well known families of this
community, by whom she is deeply
mourned, and will be sadly missed
Her tragic death, after the vicissi-
tudes and possibilities of a long life,
will be memorable in the history of
her family, and of the county in
which she lived.
The following is from the Telegraph
of yesterday:
"Mrs. A. ]. Copenhaver, of Taze-
well, was fatally burned by n fire
which almost destroyed the beauti-
full home of Capt. d. B. Baldwin, 124
Summers street, yesterday morning
1t had been thought that the home had
been cleared of its occupants and the
firemen were fighting the flames,
which were leeping wildly through
the lower Railways and rooms on the
north side of the house, when Fire
Chief, r. o. Carter, upon entering a
door at the back side of the home,
found the body of Mrs. Copenhaver
lying at the rear of the reception hall,
near the entrance of a door leading to
one of the living rooms. Life was
almost extinct when Chief Carter
made the discovery. With the ,assis-
tance of other members of the depart.
ment, Mrs. Copenhaver was taken
from the burning building and hur-
ried to the Bluefield Sanitarium, on
the fire truck, but her condition was
so critical that death resulted few
minutes after reaching the hospital.
"The fire broke out about 6:3O,
and from all indications seemed to
have started in the furnace room. y
negro boy, who had been employed
about the home, had been in the fur
mace room to stir up the fire a short
time before the flames were discov-
cred. He had gone from the furnace
room and was sitting in the room
when the alarm of fire was given.
"There were nine people in the
house, including the negro boy, who
is about the age of thirteen years
Captain and Mrs. D. B. Baldwin, Miss
Lyde Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs. C. G.
Duy and two children and mother,
Mrs. Lucy &. Duy, and Mrs. Copen-
haver. AT the hour of the fire only
one or two Of the family had awak-
ened for the day. The fire spread
rapidly and Mr.. and Mrs. buy and
children were forced to escape
through the windows on .he south
side of the building. Mr.. Duy, who
jumped out of one of the windows.