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Mary <I>Bird</I> Lake

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Mary Bird Lake

Birth
Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England
Death
27 Apr 1796
Rainbow, Washington County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Rainbow, Washington County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.4951535, Longitude: -81.4687931
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Archibald & Mary along with their 8 children came to Marietta, OH in 1789, they lived in Campus Martius during the Indian War and removed to Rainbow, OH in 1795.

Mrs. Lake taught Sunday School in the Block House of Marietta from 1791 to 1795 - the first school in Ohio and one of the first in the U.S.

Matron of Army Hospitals Fishkill & New Windsor, N.Y.; was personally thanked by Gen. Washington for her "tender, vigilant and unremitting" care of the sick soldiers.
Archibald & Mary along with their 8 children came to Marietta, OH in 1789, they lived in Campus Martius during the Indian War and removed to Rainbow, OH in 1795.

Mrs. Lake taught Sunday School in the Block House of Marietta from 1791 to 1795 - the first school in Ohio and one of the first in the U.S.

Matron of Army Hospitals Fishkill & New Windsor, N.Y.; was personally thanked by Gen. Washington for her "tender, vigilant and unremitting" care of the sick soldiers.

Inscription

Wife of Archibald Lake, aged 68 yrs.

Born at Bristol England Died at Rainbow Ohio



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