MIDDLEPORT PEOPLE.
DIED. - At her home on Third Street Sunday morning last, Mrs. Martha Radford, wife of the late John Radford, died, after several years intense suffering with dropsy. She was a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, and was seventy-four years old at the time of her death.
She came to this country fifty-three years ago, the entire time, with the exception of a few months immediately after her arrival spent in Canada, being spent in Middleport, and the greater part of it in the house in which she died. She was the mother of a large family of children, six of whom, two sons and four daughters, survive her.
The funeral was held yesterday afternoon, the services being conducted by Dr. Ohl, of Pomeroy, from the M.E. Church, and the remains were interred in the lower graveyard. Her daughters, Sarah and Maggie, ward attendants at the Athens Asylum, arrived home Sunday evening.
Meigs County Telegraph
January 14, 1891.
Transcribed by Elaine Balasky
MIDDLEPORT PEOPLE.
DIED. - At her home on Third Street Sunday morning last, Mrs. Martha Radford, wife of the late John Radford, died, after several years intense suffering with dropsy. She was a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, and was seventy-four years old at the time of her death.
She came to this country fifty-three years ago, the entire time, with the exception of a few months immediately after her arrival spent in Canada, being spent in Middleport, and the greater part of it in the house in which she died. She was the mother of a large family of children, six of whom, two sons and four daughters, survive her.
The funeral was held yesterday afternoon, the services being conducted by Dr. Ohl, of Pomeroy, from the M.E. Church, and the remains were interred in the lower graveyard. Her daughters, Sarah and Maggie, ward attendants at the Athens Asylum, arrived home Sunday evening.
Meigs County Telegraph
January 14, 1891.
Transcribed by Elaine Balasky
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MARTHA RADFORD
WIFE OF JOHN
DIED
JAN. 11, 1891
AGED
74Y 5M 11D
RADFORD
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