Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Dropped Dead in the Field.

New York, 1895

Mrs. Eliza Waters, of Bayside, wife of John Waters, a full-blooded Indian, died suddenly Friday morning. She was on her way from the milk-hut to the house when she fell dead in the field. It is believed she died of apoplexy.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 1.

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