OBIT: Mrs. Thomas SUNDERLAND, 1880, Mifflin County, PA

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Accident and Death.
 
On yesterday week on their way from McVeytown home, Mrs. Thomas Sunderland and a 
lady friend was driving in a buggy and descending the hill at Dulls farm the 
harness gave way leaving the buggy run onto the horse, this caused the horse to 
frighten and run off, Mrs. Sunderland becoming frightened jumped out on the 
ground, and the lady friend driving, held onto the reins until arriving at 
Robert Forgys where the horse was caught.  Mr. Forgy got in the buggy and went 
back to hunt Mrs. Sunderland and found her still lying in the road.  She was 
carried into the farm house and Dr. Rothrock sent for, but, before he arrived, 
she had expired.  The doctor made an examination but could find no injuries and 
decided that she had been scared to death.  Thus "in the midst of life we are in 
death."  Mrs. Sunderland was an estimable lady, loved by all that knew her, and 
her death has cast a shadow over the whole neighborhood.  She leaves a husband 
and one child.

The Watchman, Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co., Pa., Saturday, July 3, 1880

NOTE: This might be Martha SUNDERLAND, age 38, wife of Thomas, age 40, mother of 
Henry, age 15, appears in the 1880 Wayne Township, Mifflin County census on page 
191, recorded 6/3/1880.