Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — A Terrible Death. [ARTICLE]

A Terrible Death.

[Brownsville (Tenn.) Telegram.) A terrible calamity occurred here at 2 a. m. Carl Groves, a distinguished exConfederate soldier, was burned to death. He was recovering from a bad case of yellow fever. He had been pronounced convalescent. Dr. Haywood had discharged him as needing no further attention. Late yesterday evening he showed unmistakable aberration of mind. On hearing this, his brother went to him, and found him dressed and about to leave the house. He was forced back to bed. He quieted down at 9 p. m., and seemed to have recovered his mind. The brother left the house, and a nurse in care of Groves, with instructions to go for help if he became boisterous and unmanageable. At 1 o’clock a. m. Groves lost his reason and grew wild. The nurse went for help, and, in his absence, the Benderson residence, in which Groves was sick, either caught or was set ou fire, and was destroyed. Groves’ body was found to have been burned to cinders; only a portion of the blackened form was left. Hundreds gathered about the ruins of the house, and looked upon the sickening spectacle with feelings of sadness and gloom. Groves was generous-heart-ed, popular and well known in West Tennessee.