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Mellor, Louisa G. (Wolcott) VanAlstine 1832-1906

WOLCOTT, VANALSTINE, VAN ALSTINE, MELLOR

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Date: 11/7/2005 at 04:52:40

Louisa C. Wolcott was born in Chataqua county, New York, April 25, 1832, and died at her home six miles northeast of Lincoln, Kan., June 29, 1906, at 11:20 p.m., aged 74 years, 2 months and 4 days.

At five years of age she moved with her parents near Milwaukee, Wis. In 1848 her parents moved to Winnebago county, Illinois, where on Aug. 26, 1849, she was united in marriage to Henry VanAlstine. From there about 1851 she with her husband moved to Clayton county, Iowa, where seven girls and two boys were born to his union. In 1877 she came with her husband and a part of their children to Lincoln county, Kan., where her husband died Feb. 6, 1889. Some years remaining a widow she saw many hardships. And on the 20th of March, 1903, she married Thomas Mellor who with two of her sisters, three brothers, one of her sons, six of her daughters and a host of friends remain to mourn their loss.

source of obituary: Lincoln Sentinel, Lincoln co. Kansas, July 5, 1906


 

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