Mrs. Margaret Pitcher, said to be the oldest resident of Oswego county, died at the home of her son, Otis Pitcher, in Phoenix, Wednesday night.
Mrs. Pitcher was born in Lafayette Square, Madison county, November 17, 1808, and was thus a little over one hundred years old. When a young girl she moved to Volney, where she has lived most of her life.
Her maiden name was Margaret Blair. She married Peter Pitcher, of Volney, in 1828, and from that union there are living three children, Otis Pitcher aged seventy-six of Phoenix; James Pitcher aged seventy, and Mrs. Sophia Coe, aged sixty-eight years, both residents of Fulton.
Mrs. Pitcher has thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Source: The Oswego Daily Palladium, Feb 19, 1909
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She was the mother of Jerusa, Otis Alexander, William Egbert, James W., George Washington, Sefiena, Ann O., Mary Cordelia & Elizabeth Alviria Pitcher
Mrs. Margaret Pitcher, said to be the oldest resident of Oswego county, died at the home of her son, Otis Pitcher, in Phoenix, Wednesday night.
Mrs. Pitcher was born in Lafayette Square, Madison county, November 17, 1808, and was thus a little over one hundred years old. When a young girl she moved to Volney, where she has lived most of her life.
Her maiden name was Margaret Blair. She married Peter Pitcher, of Volney, in 1828, and from that union there are living three children, Otis Pitcher aged seventy-six of Phoenix; James Pitcher aged seventy, and Mrs. Sophia Coe, aged sixty-eight years, both residents of Fulton.
Mrs. Pitcher has thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Source: The Oswego Daily Palladium, Feb 19, 1909
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She was the mother of Jerusa, Otis Alexander, William Egbert, James W., George Washington, Sefiena, Ann O., Mary Cordelia & Elizabeth Alviria Pitcher
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