THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, July 30, 1931

 

Mrs. Emma Stuckey, 60-year-old pioneer woman of the Flagler Beach section of this county, died Saturday afternoon from the effects of burns she received last Thursday evening when a kerosene lamp exploded in the home.

Mrs. Stuckey, it was reported, accidentally knocked the lamp from a table while she was playing a phonograph. When she saw the flames she attempted to smother them out with the folds of her dress and was burned fatally. One of her sons rushed down stairs when the lamp exploded but arrived too late to prevent the flames from burning his mother to death.

Mrs. Stuckey and her family lived at their place near Flagler Beach for the past 25 years, coming to this section from St. Augustine where she was born. Her husband, Pickney Stuckey, and one son, Ivey, died in 1924.

The deceased is survived by five sons, Louie, Jesse, Harry, Dewey and Willie, all of whom live at home. Two sisters and two brothers also survive - Mrs. Josephine Short and Mrs. Lena Whitby, Will Jones and Leonard Jones, all of St. Augustine.

Mrs. Stuckey was carried to the home of her sister in St. Augustine early Saturday morning and died that afternoon. She was buried at Ormond cemetery beside the bodies of her husband and son Tuesday afternoon.