This is a photograph of Marian Lanning, born January 26, 1883, the daughter of Aaron Lane Lanning and Sara Emma Preston Lanning. Marian died in a drowning accident or suicide on January 18,1902. A newspaper article published in The Melvern Review, January 23, 1902, states her body was found in the Marais des Cygnes River below the bridge north of Melvern, Kansas.
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