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From The Valley Falls New Era, Valley Falls, Kansas Saturday March 9, 1878, page 3:
DIED on the 28th of February last, at the Half Mound, Mary A., wife of William Peers, in the 32 year of her age. She leaves a devoted husband and three small children to mourn her loss. she was buried in the old family (Roderick) burying ground, two miles north of town.