Who is Mamie Barnes???

Please read portions of article printed in Tri-County Chronicle, Cass City, Michigan, December 24, 1904 –

"Deadly Souvenir
A Navy Shell Does Deadly Work in a Peaceful Home.

Lifeless and horribly mutilated, the body of Mrs. Mamie Barnes, aged 26 years, was found Thursday noon across the threshhold of a doorway at the family home, 253 Pine street, Detroit.
A shell, containing a powerful explosive, which had been sent as a curio to Mrs. Barnes by her brother, Wm. Mayhu, a United States navy gunner stationed at Newport News, was the cause of her death, although murder was at first feared.
. . . At 9:30 o'clock neighbors heard the detonation of a terrific explosion. Rushing out of doors in their alarm they sought the cause, but failed to find it. The Barnes home, as well as others in the vicinity, was quiet . . .
A few minutes before 12 o’clock a passing milkman noticed smoke issuing from an open window of the Barnes home . . .
. . . The fire had evidently been smouldering for several hours, and was just gaining headway. Had the rescuing party been much later . . . and the two little children, one only a few months old and the other less than 3 years old, would probably have been killed also . . . “

Note that this occurred in Detroit but article is from Tri-County Chronicle. Many of my Barnes/Thompson/Hopps people came from and lived in the Tri-County area at this time, which probably accounts for the notice in this paper.

Mamie Mayhu Barnes – she may be one of the gaps in my tree. Mamie could be a nickname for Mable or ??

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