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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
OCR Text

WRIGHT.- In Sumpter, May 24th, Aaron Wright aged 80 years.

CONAWAY.- In Webster township May 24th, Mrs. Esther Conaway, aged 53 years.

WOODARD.- May 25, in Clinton, Mrs. Benjamin G. Woodard, aged, 37 years and 10 months.

PALMER.- In Norvell, May 24th, 1879, Stephen W. Palmer, age 86 years. Mr. Palmer was born in Stonington, New London County, Conn., November 22d, 1893. He removed with his father, Dea. Stephen Palmer, to Lenox, Madison County N. Y., in the year 1810. He was married to Miss Hulda Palmer, Aug. 8th, 1813. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was at Sacket's Harbor in the fall of 1813. In the autumn of 1836 he moved with a family of ten, into Michigan, then a territory, and settled on the farm where he died. Had he lived until the 22d of next November, he would have been 86 years of age. " Fate seemed to wind him up for four score years. Yet freshly ran he on five summers more, 'Till like some clock, worn out with keeping time. The wheels of weary life at last stood still."