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Trenton Evening News
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Description: Automobile Accident Takes Life of the Wife of Governor Townsend of Delaware.

Date: October 29 1917

Newspaper published in: Trenton NJ

Source: newspapre archives/bank

Selbyville, Del., Oct. 17, 1917

Governor John G. Townsend, Jr.,is slightly injured and his wife, age 46 years,
the former Jennie cr of seven children, is dead as the result of an automobile
accident late Saturday night. Returning to their Selbyville home from Newark
where the Governor was the speaker at the laying of the cornerstone of a new
dormitory for the Woman's College, they encountered a storm and a team of
horses ahead of them in the road. The motor car overturned twice as it skidded
when the governor threw on the brakes. The Governor was thrown clear and not
badly hurt. He removed his wife from beneath the car but she died within a few
minutes.

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