Etta Bushman
1906 - 1919 (12 years)-
Name Etta Bushman Born 22 Jun 1906 Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin 
Gender Female Died 1919 Buried St Paul Cemetery, Wrightstown, Brown, Wisconsin Person ID I128588 Little Chute Genealogy Last Modified 7 Jun 2020
Father Michael Martin Bushman, b. 17 Jul 1880, d. 15 Dec 1917, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin (Age 37 years) Mother Mary VanDeurzen, b. 14 Jul 1881, Allouez, Brown Co, Wisconsin , d. 30 Jan 1944, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin (Age 62 years) Family ID F63821 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - De Pere Journal Democrat 2-20-1919 While starting the fire in the kitchen stove on Saturday morning, about 9 o'clock, Etta, th e 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Mary Bushman, South Washington street, was burned to death, he r clothes having caught fire in some unknown manner and being burned almost entirely, from he r body. The girl was in the small cottage with her grandmother and the baby, the former being in anot her room at the time. The girl's other smaller sister and two younger brothers were at school . and the mother was a Wrightstown, having gone there to sympathize with some relatives who h ad lost a daughter. The grandmother, Mrs. John Vandurzen, is partially deaf, and the victim was afflicted wit h a impediment in her speech, and if she made any outery at all the former did not hear it. . She smelled smoke, however and on going into the kitchen to investigate, found her granddau ghter lying across a table in the throes of death and with her clothes nearly destroyed. Sh e quickly call in neighbors, and doctor was hastily summoned, but he was to late to render an y assistance as the child died before he could arrive. It was found that her clothes had bur ned from her shoes to her neck and only a few shreds had been left. Death was probably haste n by the child's inhaling the flames when they reached her face. The skin of the body had bee n literally cooked by the burning cloth, and the face was badly burned. The body was taken from the F. Schumerth undertaking establishment on Sunday afternoon to th e Wrightstown Catholic Church, where the Rev. Father Vande Castle said the rites and burial w as in the Wrightstown cemetery. Mrs. Bushman is the widow of John Bushman who died about a year ago at Wrightstown and she ha s been living here ever since doing work for several down town business houses. The sympath y will go out to her affliction.
Should state that she is the widow of Martin aka Michael Bushman, not John Bushman.
- De Pere Journal Democrat 2-20-1919 While starting the fire in the kitchen stove on Saturday morning, about 9 o'clock, Etta, th e 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Mary Bushman, South Washington street, was burned to death, he r clothes having caught fire in some unknown manner and being burned almost entirely, from he r body. The girl was in the small cottage with her grandmother and the baby, the former being in anot her room at the time. The girl's other smaller sister and two younger brothers were at school . and the mother was a Wrightstown, having gone there to sympathize with some relatives who h ad lost a daughter. The grandmother, Mrs. John Vandurzen, is partially deaf, and the victim was afflicted wit h a impediment in her speech, and if she made any outery at all the former did not hear it. . She smelled smoke, however and on going into the kitchen to investigate, found her granddau ghter lying across a table in the throes of death and with her clothes nearly destroyed. Sh e quickly call in neighbors, and doctor was hastily summoned, but he was to late to render an y assistance as the child died before he could arrive. It was found that her clothes had bur ned from her shoes to her neck and only a few shreds had been left. Death was probably haste n by the child's inhaling the flames when they reached her face. The skin of the body had bee n literally cooked by the burning cloth, and the face was badly burned. The body was taken from the F. Schumerth undertaking establishment on Sunday afternoon to th e Wrightstown Catholic Church, where the Rev. Father Vande Castle said the rites and burial w as in the Wrightstown cemetery. Mrs. Bushman is the widow of John Bushman who died about a year ago at Wrightstown and she ha s been living here ever since doing work for several down town business houses. The sympath y will go out to her affliction.