Dolly E. Pierce

   Cause of her death was severe burns of entire body/gasoline explosion.

  General Notes:

Research of:
Murrel Lee Dean
mldn1@sbcglobal.net

Eldorado Daily Republican [El Dorado, Kansas] 26 June 1906 Tuesday
Mrs Dolly Pierce-Straw, wife of John Straw of Towanda and a daughter of Mrs Lydia Pierce, recently deceased, was fatally burned Monday evening, June 25th at 5:40 in an explosion of gasoline in her Towanda home, dying of her injuries four hours later ...these immediate realatives survive...her husband John Straw, a neice, Miss Tessie Pierce who made her home with her, sisters: Mrs J. F. Brady of Chicago and Mrs M. J. Beach of Oklahoma; and brothers George and Charles Pierce of Redrock, OK and William Pierce of Fairview....remains interred in Towanda Cemetery beside those of her parents.

Cemetery records

Find A Grave Memorial# 35318505

Dolly married John Chesney Straw, son of Julius Caesar Straw and Rachel Jane Stevens, after 1900 in Eldorado, Butler, KS. (John Chesney Straw was born in Jan 1861 in Ohio, died in 1917 and was buried in Towanda Cemetery Towanda, Butler County, Kansas, USA.)