Pleasant Valley Jane Doe was a woman who was accidentally killed in Pleasant Valley, California on July 30, 1852.
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The woman was traveling through Pleasant Valley, California, with her husband and their child. They were reportedly emigrants from an unspecified country. When she put her husband's rifle in their wagon, the rifle accidentally discharged with the bullet hitting the right side of the head, killing her nearly instantly.
The husband and child mourned her death and buried her in an unknown location in Diamond Springs, California, the next day. A journalist who reported the incident on August 1, 1852, did not learn the identity of the family.