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   Another name for Jane was Mrs. Jane Beecher.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1880, Woodvale, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ John L. Pugh, 69, widowed, was living with his daughter-in-law, Jane A. Beecher, 36, widowed. Also living with them: granddaughter Mary A. Beecher, 14; grandsons John B. Beecher, 7, and Harry C. Beecher, 5. John and Jane were born in Wales of Welsh parents. Mary was born in Massachusetts, and the sons in Pennsylvania. The children's father was born in Wertemberg, their mother [Jane] in Wales.

• Cause of Death, 31 May 1889. The rain continued as men worked tirelessly to prevent the old South Fork Dam from breaking. Elias Unger, the president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, was hoping that the people in Johnstown were heeding the telegraph warnings sent earlier, which said that the dam might go. When it finally happened, at 3:10 P.M., May 31, 1889, an era of the Conemaugh Valley's history ended, and another era started. Over 2,209 people died on that tragic Friday, and thousands more were injured in one of the worst disasters in our Nation's history. On the list of those who perished:
Beecher, Mrs. Jane, 44, Woodvale. Body not found.
Beecher, Mary, 23, Woodvale. Body not found.

Jane married Beecher.