From "Abstracts of the Deaths and Marriages in the Hightstown Gazette 18
April 1861 - 28 December 1871" by Richard S Hutchinson in 2000


12 May 1870
On Sunday, Daniel Lake, of Philadelphia, died at Trenton, NJ, after
becoming intoxicated and falling down he cut [h]is arm severing an artery.
He died later that Saturday night.