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Photograph and drawing

An Excelsior cast-iron stove (Patrol Model) from 1883 was found in the cellar beneath collapsed rubble. The fire that destroyed the house in 1897 may have come from a loose spark emanating from the stove. An image of a nearly identical stove is seen in the late 19th-century letterhead from a general store in nearby Mathews County, Virginia.