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Isabella <I>Craighead</I> Weir

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Isabella Craighead Weir

Birth
Dundee, Dundee City, Scotland
Death
30 Nov 1914 (aged 86)
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec. 7s lot 43 grave 4
Memorial ID
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MRS. ISABELLA WEIR ARRIVES AT END OF LONG LIFE JOURNEY
HAD BEEN MEMBER OF COURT STREET M. E. CHURCH FIFTY YEARS
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Yielding to the infirmities of her advanced age, Mrs Isabella Weir entered the realm of eternal peace yesterday noon at 12:15 o'clock at her home, 1255 N. Main street., where she had resided for fifty-one years. Mrs. Weir was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1823 and came to America in
1853, taking up her residence in Rockford ten years later. Her husband, Neil Weir, who preceded her to the better land thirty years ago was for many years a salior on the great lakes. Left to mourn her loss are six children, three daughtere, (sp) Mrs. Elizabeth Rice, Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Nellie Alexander, of Verplanck, N. Y., and Mrs. B. Frank Snyder of Chicago, and three sons, David, James and William all of Rockford.
MRS. ISABELLA WEIR ARRIVES AT END OF LONG LIFE JOURNEY
HAD BEEN MEMBER OF COURT STREET M. E. CHURCH FIFTY YEARS
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Yielding to the infirmities of her advanced age, Mrs Isabella Weir entered the realm of eternal peace yesterday noon at 12:15 o'clock at her home, 1255 N. Main street., where she had resided for fifty-one years. Mrs. Weir was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1823 and came to America in
1853, taking up her residence in Rockford ten years later. Her husband, Neil Weir, who preceded her to the better land thirty years ago was for many years a salior on the great lakes. Left to mourn her loss are six children, three daughtere, (sp) Mrs. Elizabeth Rice, Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Nellie Alexander, of Verplanck, N. Y., and Mrs. B. Frank Snyder of Chicago, and three sons, David, James and William all of Rockford.


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