A Young Lady Shot

Miss Nancy Ann Wallace, daughter of Woodson Wallace, one of our old subscribers, we regret to learn, was accidentally shot with a pistol, on Saturday night. Several of her brothers were examining a pistol, which one of the boys had bought, when in some way not clearly explained, the pistol went off and lodged the ball in the forehead of the girl, over the right eye, the ball penetrating several inches, but strange to say, without immediate fatal results. The ball still remains in the head but with what result is not known. If inflammation can be avoided it is said, she may recover. – Ottumwa Currier, 10th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 16, 1862, p. 2