Elizabeth Ann Duane Browers (Libby, as she was called) was most unfortunate and died unmarried with no children in 1868 (some records date her death as 1873). When a girl of about fourteen, picking berries in a distant and lonely pasture she was frightened into hysterics, but not harmed otherwise, by a half-witted youth, the son of a neighbor who unexpectedly confronted her when alone. She never recovered from that shock. She soon began to disclose symptoms of incipient epilepsy attributed to that incident, which in due course developed into the disease. The attacks continued with constantly increasing frequency and severity until they completely destroyed her health and her mind. She died at twenty-eight in 1868. (Ref: Our American Ancestry, written by Frederick Taylor Gates)
Elizabeth Ann Duane Browers (Libby, as she was called) was most unfortunate and died unmarried with no children in 1868 (some records date her death as 1873). When a girl of about fourteen, picking berries in a distant and lonely pasture she was frightened into hysterics, but not harmed otherwise, by a half-witted youth, the son of a neighbor who unexpectedly confronted her when alone. She never recovered from that shock. She soon began to disclose symptoms of incipient epilepsy attributed to that incident, which in due course developed into the disease. The attacks continued with constantly increasing frequency and severity until they completely destroyed her health and her mind. She died at twenty-eight in 1868. (Ref: Our American Ancestry, written by Frederick Taylor Gates)
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