NELLIE McATEE DIES OF BURNS; RITES SUNDAY

Fatally Burned At 10:55 A.M. Yesterday While Cooking At Home, 908 Taylor.

Miss Nellie McAtee, 73, died at five o'clock yesterday afternoon at Mt. Vernon hospital of burns, received six hours earlier at her home, 908 Taylor avenue. Had she lived until February 5th, she would have been 74 years of age.

She was fatally burned at 10:55 a.m. yesterday in a tragic mishap at her home while she was cooking. Her clothing was burned from her body.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home on Taylor avenue, conducted by Rev. M.A. Souers, pastor of the First Methodist church and burial will follow in Old Union cemetery.

The body will be removed from the O.B. Fly Funeral home to the home Sunday morning and friends may call there at any convenient time up to the funeral hour.

Miss McAtee, a member of a prominent Jefferson county family, was born February 5, 1866 in Blissville township, the daughter, of Dr. Edward A. McAtee and Susan E. Thorn McAtee.

She spent her lifetime as a respected resident of this city and county. Her father was a veteran of the Civil and Mexican wars.

She was a granddaughter of Capt. W. B. Thorn, an early settler here.

She was a member of the First Methodist church and had been for years. When able, she attended church services regularly.

She is survived by a brother, Charles E. McAtee, president of the Mt. Vernon Loan and Building Association, and a sister, Mrs. Bernice Lee, also of Mt. Vernon.

A brother, Theodore, and a sister Lida, preceded her in death.

Source: Register-News
Date: Unknown
Submitted by: Cindy Ford