Sunday morning, March 6, 1904, about 4 o'clock, Miss Salina Beaver, who lived at Pine Forge, 4 miles northeast of this place, {New Market}, died very unexpectedly. She had been coloring carpet rags on Saturday, and at night attended to her usual domestic duties. During the night, after retiring at 11 o'clock, she began coughing and complained of shortness of breath, and was held up by the girl who roomed with her, and a messenger was dispatched to Mt. Jackson for a physician. Before he arrived Miss Beaver died. Her funeral took place at Cedar Grove cemetery on Monday afternoon, Elder Layman of the German Baptist church, of which she was a member, officiating. The funeral was largely attended. She was aged 68 years, 2 months, and 19 days.

The pall-bearers were Messrs. Perry Shaffer, Frank Good, John Garber, Mat Woods, Will Frederick, and William Rite (Rice?).

Miss Beaver came to this vicinity from Page county about 1859, and was a sister of the late Mrs. Edward Rice and Mrs. Jackson Yates of this neighborhood, and has one sister Mrs. Pendleton Hershberger, living in Page county, and a brother Mr. Ambrose Beaver, living at Georgetown, Texas.