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The Battle Creek Enquirer
Monday, 6 November, 1939

         MAN WHO DIED IN FIRE
           TO BE BURIED TUESDAY
           
         Services Will Be Held at 10 a.m. for
           SAM CHANDLER, 83-Year-Old Negro.
           
         Funeral services for SAM CHANDLER, blind, 83-year-old Negro -
       who burned to death about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in his one room home
       in the rear of 146 Central, will be held from the Patton funeral
       home at 10 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. E. L. Todd, pastor of the
       Second Baptist church, in charge. Burial will be in a cemetery
       at Allegan.
       
         MR. CHANDLER'S wife, ALICE, 78, who was severely burned on
       her feet and hands, was reported at Leila hospital today to be
       in a satisfactory physical condition but suffering greatly from
       shock. MRS. CHANDLER told police she was awakened by the crack-
       ling of the flames and tried to arouse her husband, but was un-
       able to do so. MR. CHANDLER had been ill in bed for several weeks.
       
         She was burned on her bare feet and hands when she ran through
       the blazing doorway. She aroused her daughter, MRS. MARY DRAKE,
       who resides at 146 Central. The flames kept the daughter from
       entering the building.
       
         MR. CHANDLER was born in July, 1856, in Terre Haute, Ind.,
       the son of ISAAC and RENA (SMITH) CHANDLER. He lived in Allegan
       before coming to Battle Creek about 40 years ago. For a number
       of years, he was employed here as an odd-job man.
       
         Besides the widow, and the daughter here, he is survived by
       another daughter, MRS. CORDELIA LEE of Chicago.
       
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