This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sidel Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8516 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan 1900, p. 6 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Child Fatally Burned Rockdale, Tex., 30 Jan – News has reached Rockdale of the fatal burning a few days ago of the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Sidel, three miles west of Rockdale. The little fellow was playing around a fire in the yard when by some means his clothing caught on fire and before assistance reached him he was fatally burned. A physician was sent for and everything possible done to relieve his sufferings, but to no avail. He only lived a few hours and succumbed to his injuries.