Extracted from The Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS)
Saturday, August 3, 1935

MRS. GILL DIES

Mrs. Laura D. Gill, wife of Robert Gill, Sr., died yesterday afternoon from burns yesterday morning when her clothes caught fire from gasoline as she sought to prepare coffee at her home on Couevas street, Biloxi. She was a native of Jones County, 65 years old, and had been in Biloxi since 1917.

She leaves her husband, two son[s], Robert and Floyd; two brothers, Wm. Spradley, Bay St. Louis; Elias Spradley, Hopewell; three sisters, Mrs. Eliza Roger, Mobile; Mrs. Columbia Webb, Fountainbleau, and Mrs. Annie Robert, Lafayette, La.

The funeral will be tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 from the residence and from Moore Memorial Methodist Church by Rev. Blackwell.