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Susan Alice <I>Mordecai</I> Westfeldt

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Susan Alice Mordecai Westfeldt

Birth
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Death
15 Feb 1939 (aged 101)
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Square 5, Lot 40
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Susan Alice was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Dr. Solomon and Caroline "Waller" Mordecai. She married Claes Henning Westfeldt June 05, 1861 in Mobile. Claes served in the Civil War and died as a Major in a battle on April 5, 1863. They had no children and Susan never remarried. She taught school in Mobile for a number of years. Susan died at the age of 101 years, 3 months, and 20 days.

Her Obituary from the Mobile Register Newspaper:
SUSAN ALICE WESTFELDT, wife of the late Maj. Claes Westfeldt, life-long resident of Mobile, died at a local infirmary at 10:15 o'clock, Wednesday morning, February 15, 1939. Mrs. Westfeldt was a descendant of a long line of distinguished ancestors, her father being the notable Dr. Solomon Mordecai of Virginia and her mother, Miss Caroline Waller, of Abbeville, SC. Among her survivors are a nephew, W.M. Broun; three nieces, Miss Elizabeth Broun, Miss Armintine Broun and Mrs. L.C. Garrett, all of Mobile and other relatives. Funeral services will be held at the Roche Funeral Home, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
Susan Alice was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Dr. Solomon and Caroline "Waller" Mordecai. She married Claes Henning Westfeldt June 05, 1861 in Mobile. Claes served in the Civil War and died as a Major in a battle on April 5, 1863. They had no children and Susan never remarried. She taught school in Mobile for a number of years. Susan died at the age of 101 years, 3 months, and 20 days.

Her Obituary from the Mobile Register Newspaper:
SUSAN ALICE WESTFELDT, wife of the late Maj. Claes Westfeldt, life-long resident of Mobile, died at a local infirmary at 10:15 o'clock, Wednesday morning, February 15, 1939. Mrs. Westfeldt was a descendant of a long line of distinguished ancestors, her father being the notable Dr. Solomon Mordecai of Virginia and her mother, Miss Caroline Waller, of Abbeville, SC. Among her survivors are a nephew, W.M. Broun; three nieces, Miss Elizabeth Broun, Miss Armintine Broun and Mrs. L.C. Garrett, all of Mobile and other relatives. Funeral services will be held at the Roche Funeral Home, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery.


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