# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-reeser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:28:40.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-reeser"
name: "Mary Reeser"
slug: "mary-reeser"
description: "Mary Hardy Reeser of St. Petersburg, Florida, was a woman whose unusual death by burning was surrounded by mystery, and even controversially reported at the time to be a case of spontaneous human combustion (SHC). She was often referred to as the \"cinder lady\" in newspaper accounts of the day."
tagline: "Suspected victim of spontaneous human combustion (1884-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Reeser.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1884-03-08"
deathDate: "1951-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.13842
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mary_Reeser"
    title: "Death of Mary Reeser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reeser"
    title: "Mary Reeser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "مری ریسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A8"
    title: "מרי ריזר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morte_de_Mary_Reeser"
    title: "Morte de Mary Reeser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15998141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump