Date April 30 1886
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun

The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate. 

A fatal accident occurred up the river about two miles from Moncton Thursday morn. about 7 o'clock. Mrs. GIBSON w/o James GIBSON, boiler maker in the I.C.R. Shops here, went out to the barn to look after her hens. She was up in the barn loft, probably looking for eggs, when she fell to the barn floor and sustained a fracture of the skull. She was discovered on the barn floor by her stepson. Mrs. Gibson was 45 years old.

Date May 6 1886
County Charlotte
Place Saint Andrews
Newspaper Bay Pilot

The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate. 

Mrs. GIBSON w/o James GIBSON, boiler maker in the I.C.R. shops at Moncton on Thursday morn last, fell from the barn loft to the floor below and fractured her skull. She was found by her stepson in an unconscious state and in a few moments afterward expired.

Source: Brenda Ayers


