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Lafayette Journal and Courier, Friday, December 26, 1958, page 2
Montgomery County Man Dies of Burns
WAYNETOWN – Elmer Cecil Wade, 74, was burned fatally about 1 p.m. Wednesday in his home on
Ind. 47, south of Crawfordsville, when his clothing apparently caught fire from a stove.
He was found by a neighbor in the kitchen near the bathroom door with his clothes burned
form his body. Wade was alone in the house at the time; his wife, Iva, was working and a
woman and her daughter who live in the house were also away.
Wade was born in Fountain county, and farmed near Mellott until about four years ago when
he moved to the present home. In 1936 he married Iva Johns at Crawfordsville. He attended
Dry Run school and was a member of Christian Undenominational church.
Surviving with the widow is a brother, Lloyd of Chicago.