Wesley Leonard Amore

1934 - 1937  (2 years)

• Name	Wesley Leonard Amore
  Born	23 Dec 1934	Ohio   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Mar 1937	Lafayette Township, Ohio   [1]
  Buried	Fairfield Cemetery, West Lafayette, Ohio   [1]
  Person ID	I17674	Virts
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Thurman Lee Amore,   b. 17 Jun 1911, Coshocton, Ohio ,   d. 1 Mar 1997, Newcomerstown, Ohio  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann Yates,   b. 17 Oct 1913, Kilgore, Ohio ,   d. 29 Apr 1936, Canton, Ohio  (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F6377	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Coshocton Newspaper Left Asleep, Two Perish in Flames Housekeeper Calling at Neighboring Residence Thurman Lee Amore, 4, and Wesley Leonard Amore, 2, sons of Thurman L. Amore, burned to death in a fire that gutted interior of the one-room shack that was their home, situated on the Joe Clark farm, three miles south of West Lafayette, Thursday afternoon. Left for less than a half hour, peacefully sleeping in their bed, by Wilma Stanley, housekeeper for Mr. Amore, the children were charred bits of flesh and bone when the fire had cooled sufficiently for rescuers to gain entrance. The children's mother, Mrs. Mary Amore, died in Canton about a year ago. The shack which was near a mine on the Clark farm, where Mr. Amore works, was covered with sheet steel on the sides and when Mrs. Stanley returned from a brief talk with Mrs. Clark, the interior of the place was a blazing furnace, so hot that the steel on the sides was red white. It was impossible to enter for nearly an hour after the fire had burned out. Coroner W.F. Lyons had been called from Coshocton in the meantime, and viewed the bodies of the children as they lay in the ashes of what once had been their bed. There was nothing left inside the shack, a one-room dwelling, except ashes and the charred bodies of the children. Mrs. Stanley said that at about 4 p.m. Thursday she put the children to bed, watched them go to sleep, and then went to the Clark residence, on the same farm but some distance from the shack near the mine mouth. Mr. Amore was away from home all day Friday, returning 10 minutes after the fire was discovered. Before leaving she fixed the fire in the stove, Mrs. Stanley said. Less than a half hour later she returned to find the shack a roaring furnace of flame, with the fire shooting thru the roof. Mrs. Stanley ran back to the Clark home and summoned aid. Firemen and officers from West Lafayette hurried to the scene of the fire but the shack still was so hot that they were forced to wait for nearly an hour before an entrance could be effected.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9929] Ohio Death Certificate No. 16170.