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Grandparents on mother's side were James Bunten and Fanny Morgan Bunten, she was a daughter of Zedekiah Morgan and Ruth Dart of Connecticut. Zedikiah Morgan was an officer in Revolutionary War. He was son of James Morgan, son of Peter Morgan, son of Isaac, son of John, son of James, who came to America in 1807.
O. L. Moore's wife was Ida Rhee Wilson, born in Ohio, married September 19, 1883. in Adeline, Kansas.
JOHN W. MORRISON, a farmer of Banks District, was born July 2, 1850, in Lewis County, his parents were David H. Morrison and Sarah Smith, and his grandparents were James Morrison and Mahala Peterson.
The Morrison's are of English descent. He married Annie E. Martin, daughter of Josiah Martin and Keziah Vincent, the granddaughter of George W. Martin, and on the maternal side, the granddaughter of Enoch Vincent, on August 12, 1869, and to this union have been born eight children: Celia A., Emma E., Rosa L., Iva A., Calvin K., Carrie A., Ludia M., and Grace W., the two oldest are dead.
His father was a Union Soldier, a member of Company B, Ioth West Vir- ginia Volunteer Infantry, and served in the army almost four years and was honorably discharged. His wife's father was also a Union soldier. He is a Methodist in religion having served as class leader for 35 years, was elected County Commissioner on the Republican ticket, and is now a Prohibitionist in politics.
JEROME B. MORRISON, born April 22, 1841, the son of David and Helen (Shreve) Morrison. His first wife was Susan E. Heck of Botetourt County, Va., and to this union were born seven children, who were named: George, Esta Florence, Allen P., Earl, Annie and Frederick.
Mr. Morrison was a blacksmith of Buckhannon Town for twenty-two years. Made a fortune at the anvil and spent it in land speculation in the West. He is now a blacksmith and farmer at the postoffice of Yokum.
His second wife was Nettie Skidmore of Barbour County, daughter of Elijah Skidmore.
MORGAN MORRISON, son of John Morrison and Susan Black, was a soldier in Company B, Tenth West Virginia Infantry. Has been twice married, Eliza Simon being the first and their children were: David and John. His second wife was Sarah (Abbott) Snyder, and their child is Rosa.
He is a farmer near Frenchton, and a pensioner.
HUGH MORISSETTE, son of William and Nellie Mary (Mckinney) Morisette. Born March 7, 1881, at Piedmont, W. Va. Moved with parents to
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Buckhannon twenty years ago. Worked at livery business and enlisted in Com- pany F, 2d West Virginia Volunteer Infantry of Spanish-American Army. Volunteered at Weston under Captain Jackson Arnold ; mustered in at Charleston, W. Va., and after seeing short service, took sick and was taken to a hospital in Baltimore, mustered out February 14, 1899.
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O. A. MOSBY, son of R. H. Mosby and Mary Ann Anderson of Albermarle County. Va., the grandson of Samuel Mosby and Mary Scott of England and Irish descent respectively. His mother was the daughter of William Lewis Anderson and Mary Ann Webb, both of English extraction.
The subject of this sketch, born August, 1847, in Albermarle County, Va., came to Upshur in 1869, on his way west. He continued his western journey and lived on the plains for five years, at which time he returned to Upshur and in 1875 married Cora E. Balsley, the daughter of Geo. W. Balsley and Margaret Alice Padgett, both of German descent and both settlers in Upshur County about 1852. Children number eight, four sons and four daughters, six of whom are now living : Lula, the oldest, is wife of Ed. J. Joyce of Pittsburg; Lena, the wife of Wade H. Crum of Ohio; Edward, Ray and Gay, twins, and Lilly.
The subject of this sketch was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in February 1863. as a member of Ist Richmond Howitzers, Cabells Batallion of Artillery, of Stuarts Brigade and served with this Batallion from the time of his enlistment until the close of the war.
He taught school in Upshur County several years after his return from the west in 1874. Farmed for many years after he quit the profession of teaching and then moved to Buckhannon to accept a position in the Giffin Planing Mill, where he worked for many years.
JOSEPH E. MARKER, Life Insurance and Sales Agent. Born October 6, 1847, in Frederick County, Virginia. Son of Elijah and Rachel (Snapp) Marker. Grandson of George and Margaret (Strosnyder) Marker.
Emigrated from Virginia in 1852 to Marion County. Moved to Grafton in 1855, when only three houses were in the place. Followed saw milling, teaming and farming until thirty-one years old, went into dairy business, worked in the B. & O. Shops, moved to Buckhannon, 1892, in March. Was eight years in employ of the Farm Supply Company and T. B. Drummond and Company.
Married Catherine McCormick, October 8, 1872.
Children : Ernest B., born July 20, 1874; Walter C., born June 30, 1876.
CHARLES C. MOUSER, a native of Preston County, born November 19, 1876. The son of George M. Mouser and Cornelia Taylor. The Mousers are of German extraction and the Taylors of Low Dutch. He was educated in the public schools of Preston County, whence he graduated and in the West Liberty State Normal and the West Virginia University. Early in life he evidenced a desire for railroading and made himself handy about the depot at Newburg, his home, until he went away to school. After leaving the West Virginia Uni- versity, he located at Alexandria in Upshur County, made himself proficient in Telegraphy and became agent and operator of the B. & O. R. R. at that point. He is also agent for the U. S. Express Co.
He married Russie Lee Farrar in June 1902, and to them one child has been born, Loris, born May 3, 1903.
ALBERT MOWERY, born January 15, 1854, native of Harrison County, son of George Mowery and Mary ( Nutter) Mowery. In 1885 he went to Wash- ington State and engaged in the lumber business there; came back in 1899 and
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married Etta Dean on March 4. 1904. daughter of George Dean, whose wife was the daughter of Archibald Hinkle. By this union one child was born, January 20, 1905 ; died January 23, 1905, in the State of Washington.
Mr. Mowery descends from a family of farmers and is a farmer. Owns sixty-two acres of the J. J. Reger farm on Brushy Fork. Is a Democrat. His grandfather must have been John Mowery of Washington District.
His wife was born January 4, 1883.
AMOS GRANVILLE MUSGRAVE. born December 16, 1856, on the Buckhannon River, north of the County Seat. His parents, Benjamin B. Mus- grave and Caroline Chipps emigrated from Monongalia County to Union Dis- trict about the year 1840. His grandfather, David Musgrave was drafted for the Army of 1812, but on account of his family was compelled to hire William Jones to take his place, this same William Jones afterwards became David Mus- grave's brother-in-law.
His great gra: dfather was Elijah Musgrave an emigrant direct from Germany.
On his mother's side, the genealogy is about as follows: Caroline Chipps was the daughter of Thomas P. Chipps and Sally Wright, who also came from Monongalia County in 1840. He was educated in the public schools of the County and taught for twelve years, he is now a farmer and merchant at Hin- kle, Upshur County. He married R. J. Neel of Ritchie County, April 12, 1881. His wife's parents were Marshall Neel and Charlotte Willard of Harrison County.
Children : Isa, Nola, Iva, Ada Gertrude, and Alta Neel.
D. S. MUSGRAVE, a farmer of Union District, was born October 29, 1848, in Monongalia County, son of John S. Musgrave and Elizabeth Steel, grandson of David B. Musgrave and Mary Jones, great grandson of Elijah Musgrave and Bashebah, his wife. His mother was a daughter of John Steel and Nancy Bowen, his grandmother was the daughter of Benjamin Jones. The subject of this sketch was married March 23, 1871, to Mary E. Bolden and their children were: Samuel T., John W., Julia E., Leroy J., Lot A., Sarah and Elmira, the three daughters are now dead. His wife was a daughter of William Bolden and Julia Hamilton, and the granddaughter of Nelson and Sarah Bolden. His grand- father was drafted in the war of 1812 and William, his brother-in-law, and single, took his place. His wife died October, 1881. October 25, 1900, he mar- ried Rachel Painter, widow of William Painter of Upshur County, she was the daughter of Benjamin Winans and Catherine Simons, the daughter of Benjamin Simons. She was born January 14. 1841, married in 1863 to William Painter, who died in 1894.
"JED" NAY, a native of Harrison County, born March 10. 1832. He follows farming and the stone mason business. His parents were James Nay and Sarah Haggerty and his grandfather was Benjamin Nay of Dutch descent. March 24. 1859, he married the daughter of Hezekiah Joffle and Nancy Buc- hanan, who was the son of James Joffle and Mary Lockwood, an emigrant from Ireland. and he first moved from Harrison County to Ritchie, where he lived until after his service in the Civil War in Company H, of the Ist West Virginia Infan- try, under H. Bowers. Thomas Reed, etc., as Captains. His company was in the battles of Rapidan. Winchester, and Bull Run. From Ritchie County he moved back to Harrison and then to Upshur, where he has since lived. Children : Nancy C., born November 29, 1859: James N., born April 29. 1861 ; Martha M., born December 9, 1863: Louisa and Eliza, twins, born November 18. 1865; Mary
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D., born January 5, 1868; Hezekiah E., born April 6, 1869; John A., born November, 1870; Adda M., born May 16, 1872; Maggie B., born May 3, 1874; Amos B., born August 24, 1875; Ettie F., born March 19, 1877; Robert C., born September 6, 1878; Joseph, born February 23, 1880; Elsie, born 1882, and Sarah T., born September 30, 1883.
Mrs. Nay's christian name is Juliet.
The subject of this sketch owns a hundred and four acres of land on the Staunton and Parkersburg Turn Pike Road, nine miles east of Buckhannon and commonly known as Moss Hill.
He had four brothers in the Union Army ; James, Alfred, Lemuel and John, who died at Clarksburg and he has five sisters all married.
This family have ten of their children as members of the M. P. Church, have twenty-four grandchildren and the two youngest sons are citizens of Oklahoma State.
ORD MARKWOOD NEELEY, a lumber inspector, now merchant at Flat- woods, was born February 21, 1874, at Hinkleville. His parents were Anthony and Annie Roach Neely. His father and his grandfather, Jacob Roach, were sol- diers in the Union Army. His grandfather, David Neeley, immigrated to Upshur County before the Civil War, settling near Hinkleville.
Ord M. was educated in the common schools of the County. Was raised on a farm.
Married Edna Bernice Stalnaker, August 8, 1906. Her parents were S. Wise Stalnaker, a merchant of Flat Woods, Braxton County, and Dora Pickens of Braxton County.
He now lives in Braxton County.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY NEFF. I was born February 2, 1825, on the head of Muddy Creek, in Rockingham County, Virginia. My great grandfather, Dr. John Henry Neff was a native of Switzerland, he first settled in Pennsylvania, and afterwards near New Market, on the Little Shenandoah River in Shenandoah County, Virginia, where he raised a family of sons and daughters ; he, himself, one of his sons, Jacob Neff (my grandfather) and one of his sons, and David Neff, one of the latter's sons, Jacob Neff, were practicing physicians ; all lived and died near New Market in the same county.
My father in the year 1804, married Barbara Burkholder, a daughter of Jacob Burkholder, a Pennsylvania German living then in Rockingham County, Va., and settled in the county of Rockingham and to them were born twelve child- ren and raised of the twelve, eleven of which I was the youngest, and there are but two of us living at this time. My father was a farmer and raised all of his children on a farm on the head of Muddy Creek in the same county of Rockingham.
In September 1847, I, with my brother Jacob moved to and settled on a farm, now owned by Lafayette Hinkle, then Barbour County, but now in this, Upshur County. In the month of May 1848. I married Mary Catherine Reynolds, eldest daughter of Watson R., and Sallie Reynolds and to us were born nine children and eight of them lived to be grown. The oldest was Joseph B. Neff, a printer by trade and now dead ; John W. Neff, now in Morgantown, W. Va., and a car- penter by trade ; Robert K., Neff, now of Buckhannon and a painter ; Sarah Vic- toria died at the age of fifteen ; Mary S. E. Neff. now the wife of F. B. Pierce of Buckhannon ; Emma E., the widow of Phillip Rollins, now living in Buckhan- non ; Sallie V., yet single ; and Watson H., painter by occupation, living in Buck- hannon and married to Minnie F. Hinkle.
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During my life, I have lived at different places besides this county, viz : Taylor and Gilmer Counties. I was at the first Court held in this County . Was for several years Postmaster at Peck's Run, this County. Was enumerator of the Census in 1880, and, also in 1890.
Taught school in Upshur, Barbour and Gilmer Counties, for nearly twenty- five years.
And I have been a member of the U. B. Church for nearly fifty-nine years. MARY ELIZABETH NEFF, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Thomas) Riggs, born December 16, 1847, in Monongalia County, married Thomas H. B. Neff, a blacksmith, November 15, 1866. Mr. Neff having served his country in Company I, Third West Virginia Cavalry, under Captains G. E. Anderson and Geo. A. Sexton.
Children, Benton J., wife, Lesta Love, lives in Colorado; Sarah Margaret widow, with two children; John B., wife, Bertha Jenkins; Minnie A., wife of Ralph Smith; Thomas L., and Jessie E., single.
ROBERT KNELL NEFF, painter and contractor. Was born at Fetter- inan, Taylor County, April 10, 1855. Parents: Henry and Mary Catherine (Reynolds) Neff. Fourth of a family of nine. He was a painter for 22 years in Buckhannon.
He married Angielina Rollins, daughter of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Reese) Rollins. He has been a member of the United Brethren Church in Christ for 32 years.
Child : Stein Bovey, born May 29, 1886.
MESHACH A. NETHKEN, native of Maryland, born in Garrett County, February 2, 1845, and married Sarah A. Spiker, of the same county.
Was a soldier in the Civil War, Company K, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Came to West Virginia in 1878.
Children : W. F., Mary F., Ruben R., R. H., Jennie V., Albert T., and Abel S., twins, Lloyd J., private in United States Marines, August, 1904, enlisted for four years ; Celia, Lucetta, Dora J., and Meshach A.
Meshach A. Nethken was a private in Capt. S. T. Griffith's company, Penn- sylvania Six Months' Volunteer Infantry, was enrolled on July 22, 1863, at Pitts- burg, Pa., and discharged at the same place on January 29, 1864. He re-enlisted as a private in Capt. William H. Collin's Company K, 7th Pennsylvania Volun- teer Cavalry, enrolled on the 25th day of February, 1864, at Pittsburg, Pa., and was mustered out at Macon, Ga., August 23, 1865, and paid up in full at Har- risburg, Pa., September 5, 1865. Was a soldier that followed General Sherman to the sea, was under Generals Thomas, Kilpatrick and Wilson. His brigade captured Jefferson Davis.
He is a farmer of Banks Distsict and an influential member of the Goshen Dunkard Church.
CHARLES F. NEWLON. a merchant and farmer of Swamp Run, W. Va., was born July 14, 1872, is a native of Barbour County, son of Burr P. Newlon and Sally A. Lake, a daughter of Harrison Lake and a granddaughter of William Lake, Jr., and great granddaughter of William and Mary (Asbury) Lake, who were married in 1768. and settled in Taylor Cunty, and a great, great grand- daughter of Stephen Lake, an emigrant from England. He married Lucy W. Crites, January 10, 1897, his wife was the daughter of James D. Crites and Vir- ginia Wentz, the daughter of James W. Wentz and Lucy Catherine Harris, the granddaughter of John Wentz, who was the son of William, Jr., who was the son of William, Sr., who was the son of Warren, who emigrated from Germany
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to America, in 1774, and who served in the German Army seven years and in the American Army seven more years. James D. Crites was a son of Abraham Crites and Wealthy Pringle, daughter of William Pringle.
Children of the subject of this sketch: William O., Sally V., Odus Magdaline and James Floyd.
ELZA NIXON, born June 2, 1855. Son of Jesse B. Nixon, who was one of the Militia captured at Rock Cave, paroled, sent to Richmond and died in Baltimore.
His wife was Lucy Dodd, daughter of Elza Dodd. Her father and mother were natives of Marion County.
The Nixon were early settlers of Banks District, Upshur County.
Jesse B. Nixon had eight children, of which the subject of this sketch is the fourth child.
Elza Nixon married Harriet Crites, the daughter of Abram Crites and Becca Ann Crites. Her mother was Wealthy Pringle, daughter of William, son of Samuel Pringle of Sycamore Tree.
Children : Lloyd, married Lottie Johnson; Ida, Claud, Charley, Sam, Cora. Upton, Edda, John, Parley, Lucy.
Mrs. Nixon has a spinning wheel descended from Samuel Pringle.
Mr. Nixon is a farmer of Banks District, owns a farm of 68 acres. Is a Republican in politics.
RACHEL NORMAN, wife of Franklin Norman, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Stuart) Carson, of Gilmer County. Born March 26, 1875.
Her husband, a tanner, has been an employee of the William Flaccus Oak and Leather Company since 1893.
Children : Rhoda Frances, born May 25, 1898; Charles Earle, born September 10, 1902 ; Lena Gertrude, born September 16, 1904.
WILLIS NORVELL, son of Thomas A. Norvell and Ellen Bean, the daugh- ter of Andrew Bean, the grandson of Seneca Norvell of Albermarle County, Va., and Mary Prear, and their children were four in number, Thomas Abner, who was postmaster at Sago thirty years; Susan, the wife of Clark Cutright ; Saphrona. wife of Benjamin Tallman. In the Abner Norvell family were four sons and three daughters : Roena, wife of Andrew G. Ours : Edgar W., married Ida Hiner, Salina, Warren, who married Willa Ann Wingfield ; Anna L., wife of Henry Ours, Burnum, married Marietta M. Westfall, and Willis. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Upshur, took a business course in the Mountain State Business College and for several years has been working for Fairmont Coal Company.
WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN was born in Barbour County, West Vir- ginia, January 8, 1862, and is a son of General Emmet Jones O'Brien and Martha Ann O'Brien. General Emmet J. O'Brien was of Irish and English descent. His father, Daniel O'Brien, was born in County Clare, Ireland, and was a descen- dant of two branches of the O'Brien family, his father's name being Daniel O'Brien and his mother's name Mary O'Brien. His mother, Hannah Norris O'Brien was a daughter of John Norris, of Lewis County, Va., now West Vir- ginia, and a descendant of the Norris and Jones families of Farquier County, Va., General O'Brien died at his home, near Weston, in the year 1887. Martha Ann O'Brien, the mother of William Smith O'Brien, was a daughter of Jonathan Hall of Lewis County, and a descendant of the Regers and Halls of Upshur County. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Reger, a daughter of Abram Reger, Sr., who was one of the eleven children of Jacob Reger, who settled on the Buck-
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hannon River, near Burnersville, about the year 1776. For further information as to the Reger family, reference is is here made to the sketch by Mrs. L. E. A. Heavner. Jonathan Hall was of English descent, his father's name was Joseph Hall, who settled at an early day on Peck's Run, of Upshur County, and married Ann Strange, whose first husband was named Martin, her maiden name being Ann Hitt. She was a French Huegunot, originally from Virginia. Among Ann Hitt's descendants, the Martins, Stranges and Halls, are numbered some of the most noted preachers of Methodism, and stable business and professional men in this and many of the western states.
William Smith O'Brien is one of four children, viz : Lieutenant Alonzo Lee, of the United States Cavalry, now dead; Captain Daniel U., an officer in the late war with Spain, now a prominent farmer and grazier of Glenville, W. Va .; Mary Lillian, the wife of Hon. William M. Arnold, stock dealer of Keyser, Roane County, W. Va .; and William Smith, the subject of this sketch. When William Smith O'Brien was quite young, his parents moved from Barbour County, W. Va., to Weston, Lewis County, where he grew to manhood. He passed his early life in working on the farm, in brick yards, and on public works, and in acquiring an education. He attended the West Virginia University for a few terms in the early '80's. He taught in the public schools of Lewis County for thirteen years. While engaged in teaching, he commenced the study of the law, secured his books and received instructions from the late Hon. John Brannon, of Weston, then one of the most able and distinguished lawyers and jurists of the state. He graduated in the law at the West Virginia University in 1891, having the degree of Bachelor of Laws conferred upon him. He located at Buckhannon for the practice of his profession in 1892. He was commissioned Captain in the West Virginia Militia about the year 1893.
In 1896 he was united in marriage with Emma White, eldest daughter of A. P. White and Mary Fetty White. A. P. White is a prominent farmer and grazier of Camden, Lewis County, W. Va., is of Scotch-Irish descent, and is of the White family of Maryland and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. His mother's name was Jackson, an aunt of Stonewall Jackson. The writer is not acquainted with the lineage of Mary Fetty White, except that her immediate ancestors, the Carmacks and Fettys are well known and respected in Lewis County, of this state.
William Smith O'Brien and Emma White O'Brien have four children, Perry Emmet ; Daniel Pitt ; Mary Martha ; and William.
In 1903, William Smith O'Brien and Hon. William Talbot, one of the most prominent lawyers of Upshur County, formed a partnership in the law, under the firm name of Talbot & O'Brien. This firm was acquiring a lucrative practice among a reliable and stable clientage, until it was dissolved on February 21, 1907, by the death of the senior member, Mr. Talbot, who died at Charleston, W. Va., while serving as senior State Senator from the Thirteenth Senatorial District.
William Smith O'Brien is identified with the business development of Buck- hannon, and has been a Director of the Peoples Bank of West Virginia since its formation. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Methodist Episcopal. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.
ALONZA CLAY OGDEN, was born April 14, 1869. Was married July 28, 1893, to Emma E. Morrison, who was born in 1872.
Children : Esker, who died in infancy; Drews Anna, William Audra, Iva May.
Mr. Ogden married for his second wife, on October 26, 1904, Martha Olive McClain, the daughter of James and Octave (Childress) McClain. Child :
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Orville Childress McClain. Mrs. McClain is a daughter of Rev. William Child- ress, who was one of the first settlers of Straight Fork Country, and one of the founders of the church at that place. He was born August 26, 1819, and married Martha Jane Farrell, January 27, 1840. He emigrated from Virginia in 1845, when he bought 100 acres of land in the woods and cleared it. His children are Julia G., Octave W., Melville P., Martha S., Mary A. Catherine W., William S., Jessie L., Ida May, Benjamin F., Olin A., Porter L.
Mr. Childress was a minister in the M. E. Church for thirty-five years, and one of the charter members of Straight Fork Church. He was the son of William and Susanna (Goff) Childress.
The subject of this sketch is the owner of the farm known as the James Curry farm, on French Creek, where he lives. He is also engaged in the lumber business. He is a Baptist in religion and a Republican in politics.
ELMORE OSBORNE, born in Harrison County, April 15, 1839, the son of Wilson Osborne and the grandson of Joseph Osborne of Virginia. His mother's maiden name was Susanna Starcher, the daughter of John Starcher and his grandmother's maiden name was Romine.
Wilson Osborne had seven children, two daughters and five sons. On October 10, 1866, he married Eliza E. Wingfield, the daughter of Robert.
She was born October 11, 1850, and died November 20, 1902. To this union were born: Sarah Jane, December 11, 1868, the wife of George Tenney; Van Buren, September 5, 1870, and married Gertie Talbot ; Susanna, June 18, 1872, the wife of W. H. Matthew; Chesley, March 4, 1874, married Vertie Hornbeck ; Melvina, March 7, 1877, wife of Austin J. Smith ; Emma M., February 18, 1882 ; Ellet W., January 18, 1884; Hettie F., January 22, 1888, wife of James H. Shockey.
His second wife was Mary Zickefoose, the daughter of Henry and Barbara (Simmons) Zickefoose. Barbara Simmons was a daughter of George Simmons. Mrs. Osborne was one of fourteen children, her brothers and sisters being : Peter, Emanuel, Malinda, Lucinda, Anna, Amos, Hanson, Sampson, George W., Pricilla, Elias, Mary, and two dead.
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