According to an obituary her year of birth is 1798:
"Mrs. Caroline Bothwell, the oldest person and oldest resident of this county, died at the residence of her son, Ezra P. Bothwell, in McArthur, at 12 o'clock Saturday, in her eighty ninth year. She was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in January, 1798, was the daughter of John Potter, and was married to James 1810, with whom she had lived in the State of Maryland until 1814, when they moved to this county, sixty-one years ago.
Her husband died in 1861. She lived to see her fifth generation, and was the mother of eight sons and three daughters."
According to an obituary her year of birth is 1798:
"Mrs. Caroline Bothwell, the oldest person and oldest resident of this county, died at the residence of her son, Ezra P. Bothwell, in McArthur, at 12 o'clock Saturday, in her eighty ninth year. She was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in January, 1798, was the daughter of John Potter, and was married to James 1810, with whom she had lived in the State of Maryland until 1814, when they moved to this county, sixty-one years ago.
Her husband died in 1861. She lived to see her fifth generation, and was the mother of eight sons and three daughters."
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Wife of
James Bothwell
Died
Oct. 9 1875
Aged
87 Y. 8 M. 17 D.
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