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Sunday's Obituary: Mary Jane Schaffer

Daily Dispatch (VA)
21 July 1920

KILLED WHILE MILKING COW

FREDERICKSBURG, July 20 -- News has been received here of the death of Mrs. Mary Jane Schaffer, 44, wife of Homer J. Schaffer, of Prince William county, who was killed by lightning while milking a cow. In the yard with her was her eight-year-old son, who was stunned by the shock, but soon recovered. Mrs. Schaffer is survived by her husband, seven children, the youngest being ten months old, five sisters and four brothers.



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