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Jennie <I>Stokes</I> Bergold

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Jennie Stokes Bergold

Birth
Osyka, Pike County, Mississippi, USA
Death
31 Mar 1912 (aged 51)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Osyka, Pike County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section E
Memorial ID
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Wife of Sebastian Bergold (whereabouts unkn)m. 16 Dec. 1880
Daughter of Joel and Catherine Letisue Courtney Stokes.
Mother of Arthur Edgar Bergold, Ellis Oliver Bergold and unnamed infant girl.
Burned to death while raking and burning leaves.(Dressed in the long skirts of the day, her dress caught on fire). Her neighbor, Mr. Alex Applewhite, saw her and ran to help her but the gate in the fence was locked and he had to climb the fence. She lived only about two blocks from the train depot, she was taken there and put on the next train to New Orleans. She died in New Orleans.
Her full name was Catherine Jennie Stokes Bergold.
Wife of Sebastian Bergold (whereabouts unkn)m. 16 Dec. 1880
Daughter of Joel and Catherine Letisue Courtney Stokes.
Mother of Arthur Edgar Bergold, Ellis Oliver Bergold and unnamed infant girl.
Burned to death while raking and burning leaves.(Dressed in the long skirts of the day, her dress caught on fire). Her neighbor, Mr. Alex Applewhite, saw her and ran to help her but the gate in the fence was locked and he had to climb the fence. She lived only about two blocks from the train depot, she was taken there and put on the next train to New Orleans. She died in New Orleans.
Her full name was Catherine Jennie Stokes Bergold.


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