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Show I WOMAN SURVIVOR OF DONNER PARTY DIES I r.". AXGKl.KS. Feb. 18. Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia Elizabeth jpwta Murphy, a survivor of tin iil- !aled Donner party, wore held here riur-d.iv. She died Tuesday. Mrs.i Wurphy, who was horn in Springfield. 1)1 In 1834. s a girl was acquainted Ibtn Abraham Lincoln. The lionni ii" ' crossed the plains In 1S47. is rfaisiit in a hltzz-irrt and spent the I i tBT t what now Is known a.s ron- ucr lake In northern California, where nost of it" members died'of starvation.' |