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Velma Luvata Stegall, 8-year-old daughter of Zelma and Zella Stegall of the New Chapel Community, burned to death when their home was completely destroyed by fire on Jan. 21, 1956. The home was located on a two acre farm near the New Chapel School just south of New Salem and a short distance off of Highway 25. The child who was in third grade, was asleep in the house and was burned before anyone discovered the blaze. The parents operated a small café in this colored this colored community and both of them together with another daughter, age 14, were busy at the café some 200 feet away from the home when the tragedy occurred. The father had gone to the house and put wood in a heater to keep the room warm for the child only some 30 minutes before his brother, Charlie, saw flames leaping out of the window. Another brother, Willie G. Stegall, ran to the house and knocked in the door to try to save the sleeping child but was unable to enter the room because of the fire. A son of the Stegalls, Clarence, age 17, left home the previous week for St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was seeking work. Funeral services for the child were held from the New Chapel Methodist Church on Jan. 22 with burial in the nearby cemetery with Boss Hannon, undertaker of Amory in charge of the arrangements.
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