While Minnie EVERY, the 14-year-old daughter of C.T. EVERY, of Codwell [sic]  county, N.C., was preparing her father’s dinner, her clothing caught fire from the stove.  The girl becoming thoroughly frightened rushed out of the house into the breezy air and soon she was completely enveloped in flames.  Two young men hearing the pitiful screams of the poor girl rushed to her rescue and were both badly burned in attempting to save her life, but the girl was burned fatally and died in two hours.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.