This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fly.2ACEB/639 Message Board Post: >From the Blue Valley Blade Seward County, Nebraska December 22, 1880 A young lady school teacher named Clarinda Masters, aged 18 years, was killed Saturday last on the A. & N., near Elk Creek, Johnson County, while on her way to school with her little brother. She attempted to cross the track in front of the passenger train due in Seward at 2:00 p.m., but slipped and fell, the pilot of the train striking her and knocking her against a stone, producing injuries which resulted in her death in less than an hour.