From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/16/1863, p. 2, c. 2

DIED,

…In this city, on Sunday morning, the 15th inst., from burns received at the explosion of the Laboratory, on Brown’s Island, VIRGINIA ADELEINE MEYER, only daughter of George and Martha Meyer, in the 12th year of her age.

The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral this morning at 11 o’clock from her residence, on Jefferson street, between Broad and Marshall.

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