A Graduate's Tragic End: In Memory of Miss Sarah S. Hayman

Gasoline Stove Fatality.
Death of Miss Sarah Hayman at
Grand Island.
Injuries Prove Mortal.
A Member of the Graduating Class
at the High School
Death Very Much Deplored.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., May 27. ---(Special.) ---Miss Sarah Hayman died at an early hour this morning from injuries received at the recent fire at the home of the family in West Lawn. The case is a particularly sad one, as the young lady was a member of the graduating class of the high school, which held its commencement exercises at the opera house last night. Last Saturday noon a gasoline stove exploded at the Hayman resident. Miss Hayman was standing near the stove at the time and her clothing at once took fire. She was alone in the room at the time and rushed out of the house for help. She had run some eighty feet before help reached her, the fire being smothered by a carpet thrown about her. Both arms, back, and neck were badly burned, but it was believed at first that the burns were only superficial and though extensive, would not be serious. Her absence from the exercises last night and her serious condition, cast a gloom over the class, among the members of which, and the public generally she was held in high esteem. ---The Nebraska State Journal Saturday, May 28, 1898. (5:3)

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., may 27.---(Special.)---Miss Sarah hayman died at an early hour this morning from injuries received at the recent fire at the home of the family in West Lawn. . . . (same article as written in The Nebraska State Journal without the headliner, and the "Lincoln Journal Star p. 8.). Lincoln Star Saturday, May 27, 1898. (6:4)

Miss Sarah Hayman of the Grand Island high school graduating class died on the morning of the day the commencement exercises were held, the result of burns received in an explosion of gasoline she being near enough to the stove to have her clothes fired. ---McCook Tribune Friday, June 3, 1898. (1:8)

Sarah's Family History:

Birth: 24 Aug 1878 Meigs, Ohio, USA
Death: 27 May 1898, Hall, Nebraska, USA
Father: Stephan Spencer Hayman
Mother: Elizabeth Douglass
1880: Sutton, Meigs, Ohio, USA (Age: 1)
1885: Harrison, Hall, Nebraska, USA (Age: 6)

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Disclaimer: this headstone states that Sarah Hayman died 23 may 1898, when the article I found says differently. I believe this headstone was placed after the fact many years later. Sarah's death date should be 27 May 1898 as the "Lincoln Star" reported that she died "this morning" date of 27th written on article.