This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurt, Anderson, Stamper, Ray, Simpson, Long, Newby, Tudor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xAB.2ACI/2163 Message Board Post: The body of Mrs. Jennie Masters who died from an accidental wound at her home in Covington, was brought, to Lancaster and taken to the home of her father, J. R. Sparks on the Buckeye pike. Funeral services were conducted at Gunn's Chapel yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock, interment following there. Mrs. Masters was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Sparks and grew to womanhood in this community. She was loved by all who knew her and her tragic passing brought sadness to us all. Mrs. Masters was 28 years old. She is survived by her parents, husband and a ten-year-old daughter, DeEtta, four sisters, Mrs. Tom Gay, Mrs. Herman Doolin, Mrs. James Hicks and Mrs. Jesse Casey; four brothers, Messrs, Claude, Chloris and Clarence Sparks. The following from the Kentucky Post gives details of the accidental shooting: While clipping the hair of her ten-year-old daughter, Detta, in a room with her husband and her brother-in-law, Mrs. Jennie Masters, 28, 1534 Maryland Avenue, Covington, was fatally shot Sunday afternoon. The bullet was fired accidentally by her brother-in-law, Walker Masters, 28, machinist, 1526 Gilpin Avenue, Cincinnati. A technical charge of murder was placed against Masters and he will be given a hearing before Judge John B. Read in Kenton County Court, January 24. He was arraigned in Covington Police Cour, Monday, and the case was transferred to the County Court, Masters was released on his own recognizance. Masters had visited his sister-in-law's home Sunday to obtain a revolver, which he had lent to his brother, William Masters, street car motorman and husband of the dead woman. He had intended to lend the weapon to another brother. The revolver was lying on the mantelpiece in the room where Mrs. Masters was cutting her daughter's hair. Masters obtained the gun and removed the magazine prior to putting it in his pocket. He overlooked a cartridge in the chamber of the gun. As he inspected the gun in his hands, Masters accidentally pulled the trigger. The lone cartridge exploded and the bullet struck Mrs. Masters in the left side of the head. It took an upward course and came out at the top of the head. Mrs. Masters dropped the scissors which she had in her hand and slumped to the floor. Her husband, who was in the room but did not see the bullet fired, rushed to her side. The daughter, frightened by the report of the revolver and the sight of her mother lying on the floor, screamed frantically. Masters and his brother called Covington poplice and aided in taking Mrs. Masters to the St. Elizabeth Hospital. She died without regaining consciousness. The brother-in-law surrended to the police and gave them the weapon. He declared the shooting had been accidental.