Minnie Shesler

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Wife Minnie Shesler ¹

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           Born: 4 Dec 1867 1
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         Father: Dr. Jacob A. Shesler (1836-      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Overholt (1842-      ) 1

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General Notes: Wife - Minnie Shesler

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She fell a victim to one of the most atrocious crimes of the 19th century, in which the McGlincy family near Campbelle Station, Santa Clara County, California, with his step-son, James Wells, Robert Briscoe, an employee, and Minnie Shesler, six in all, were murdered in cold blood by James C. Dunham, the son-in-law of Mr. McGlincy. During the absence of the male members of the family at night, James C. Dunham murdered Mrs. McGlincy, and his wife, the latter sick in bed from confinement. He murdered his wife by breaking her neck across the side-board of her bed. Miss Minnie Shesler (who was employed to superintend in the cooking department of the family), occupied an adjoining room, and apparently heard the struggle and came into the room to see what was wrong, and was stricken down with an ax, the sharp edge striking cross-ways just back of her forehead, from which death must have been instantaneous. There were four other wounds made, each penetrating the brain, any of which would have proved fatal. She was found lying in a large pool of blood beside the bed of Mrs. Dunham. The murderer then waited the return of the other members of the family when he finished his bloody work.

1 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 124.