From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/1/1880, p. 6, c. 4
NECROLOGY OF THE YEAR.
The following s a list of the notable deaths that have occurred during the year. The list is not designed to embrace all the deaths that have occurred, but only of those whose age or prominence in the community entitle them to a place in the New-Year’s paper:
…October.
4th…Mrs. Mary A Lorton; aged 80.