Monday, May 26, 2008

Found Frozen in a Barn

New York, 1895

William Stoothoff, who left his home at Far Rockaway Wednesday of last week to visit friends, was found Thursday lying in the barn in the rear of the Neptune house. He had apparently frozen to death. Stoothoff was 75 years old and a veteran of the war.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.

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