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Show MEETS DEATH IN FLAMES. Young Woman Loses Life When Historic His-toric Home is Destroyed. Winchester,. Va. Miss Virginia Carter, young daughter of Reese B. Carter, was burned to death Sunday jin a fire which destroyed her home, "Yellow House,", at. Rest, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were badly burned in an effort to save their daughter. "Yellow House" was more than 200 years old and was the scene of many notable events during the revolutionary and civil war times. General George Washington stopped there while on his way to Braddock's relief at Fort Duquesne and during the conflict between the states it was the home of Miss Rachael Wright, whose information to General Sheridan Sheri-dan was of such value to the federal army during his campaign that congress con-gress voted her a gold medal. |