Carrie Belle Harlan ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: KC23-GJP.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1920 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ⁴ The 1920 census recorded owning a home on E. Penn Street: Hiram Pruitt, age unknown, no occupation, living with wife Carrie B., 45, and mother-in-law Margaret A. Harlan, widowed, 85. Hiram and Carrie were born in Illinois. Hiram's parents father was born in Indiana and mother in Michigan. Carrie's mother was born in Ohio and father in Kentucky. Margaret was born in Ohio, her father in Connecticut and mother in Virginia.

2. Census in 1940 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ⁵ The 1940 census recorded owning a $2600 home at 615 East Penn Street: Hiram D. Pruitt, retired, 70, living with wife Cassie H., 66. They were born in Illinois and lived in the same house in 1935. He had attended 4 years of high school and she 2 years of college.

3. Arrival: Oct 1955, in Lake Worth, Palm Beach, FL. ³

4. Newspaper: Miami Herald: Man Asphyxiated at Lake Worth, 4 Mar 1956, Miami, Miami-Dade, FL. ⁶ LAKE WORTH -- (AP) --Hiram D. Pruitt, 86, was killed Saturday by gas fumes but his wife, unconscious when discovered, apparententiy was recovering. The couple spent several hours their apartment while an unlighted jet in the stove oven filled the rooms with gas. A neighbor who called police after she failed to see the Pruitts during the morning said the oven apparently was left burning Friday night and that the flame went out later allowing unburned gas to escape.

5. Newspaper: Palm Beach Post: 24-Hour Area Toll Totals Four Dead, 13 in Hospital, 4 Mar 1956, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL. ⁷ Lake Worth Police reported the death of Hiram D. Pruitt, 86, of 222 N. J. St., from asphyxiation caused by gas fumes escaping from a gas stove oven jet, which had been left burning, but which had gone out. Pruitt's wife was in Good Samaritan Hospital, but was expected to recover. A neighbor, Mrs. Lulu Frances, reported to police when she failed to see the couple Saturday morning. It is believed that the Pruitt's had dined Friday night and gone to bed without turning off the oven.

6. Residence: 222 North J Street, Lake Worth, FL on 9 Mar 1956 in Lake Worth, Palm Beach, FL. ³

7. Newspaper: The Palm Beach Post: Second Gas Victim Dies, 10 Mar 1956, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL. ³ ---------------------------
Second Gas Victim Dies
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Mrs. Carrie Harland Prultt, 81, widow of the late Hiram D. Pruitt, of 222 North J St., Lake Worth, died Friday night in a local hospital from the effects of asphyxiation last weekend. Mrs. Pruitt and her husband were discovered Sunday by neighbors at their home. Mr. Pruitt had succumbed to the gas fumes and Mrs. Pruitt, who was unconscious when discovered, never regained consciousness in the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt came to Lake Worth from Hoopston, Ill. last October. Mrs. Pruitt is survived by a niece, Mrs. Margaret Beatty, and two nephews, Frank Eyman and John Harland, all of whom came to Lake Worth after the asphyxiation of Mr. and Mrs Pruitt. Services and burial for both Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt will be held in Hoopston, with Tom Smith Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements.

Carrie married Hiram Dodge Pruitt, son of Joseph Austin Pruitt and Augusta Lydia Hurd, on 24 Aug 1916 in Watervliet, Berrien, MI.¹ (Hiram Dodge Pruitt was born on 17 Aug 1869 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL,⁸ died on 2 Mar 1956 in Lake Worth, Palm Beach, FL ^{6 8 9} and was buried in Lovejoy Township: Floral Hill Cemetery, Iroquois, IL ⁸.)