{"id":4153,"date":"2019-01-16T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2019-01-16T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T01:26:02","slug":"tarboro-fireman-dies-from-illness-after-fire-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/tarboro-fireman-dies-from-illness-after-fire-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarboro Fireman Dies From Illness After Fire – 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This is a version of a posting from Legeros Fire Line on Facebook. See that posting<\/a> for reader comments and discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Found a reference to a Tarboro Fire Department firefighter fatality, and apparently duty-related. From the Proceedings of the North Carolina State Firemen\u2019s Convention in 1899, page 26, from the Secretary\u2019s Report:<\/p>\n

\u201cDeath has again invaded our ranks. This time one of our former treasurers has been taken. Died February 16th, 1899, Chas. G. Bradley, of Tarboro Hook and Ladder Company. Death was caused by severe illness, contracted by being wet and overheated attending a fire a week or more before death.\u201d<\/p>\n

This makes one of the state’s oldest line-of-duty deaths, after three Asheville firemen were killed in 1891, in a train derailment, while returning from the state firemen\u2019s convention in Durham.<\/p>\n

Next steps, to learn more about the Tarboro fireman? Suggest these sources for additional information:<\/p>\n