PUFFER, Clarissa Caroline

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cremated: Adrian, MI; Address:
  State Industrial Home Cemetery
• _COLOR: 11
• Adopted: 1908

Notes:

Her birth father's name is Solomon Puffer, mother Alice Dyke, according to her death certificate. She was adopted in 1908 by Thomas and Virginia Evans.

She died of sepsis (blood poisoning) after she pricked her face with a darning needle (a large, not very sharp needle, with a large eye for use with yarn, etc.) She was an inmate at the State Industrial School for Girls, in Adrian, MI at the time of her death. Founded in 1879 "..for the reception, care, and training of convicted female juvenile offenders between the ages of seven and twenty."

According to her death certificate she is buried at the school cemetery, however no information exits on this cemetery.

FindaGrave:
GRID=129409479 no stone

Buried:
GRID=unknown