Margaret A. Burnett 1789-1888

BURNETT

Posted By: C, Diamond, IAGenWeb Volunteer
Date: 9/5/2014 at 16:35:38

MARGARET A. [FINCH] BURNETT
1789 - 1888

In Her 100th Year.
Margaret A. Finch Burnett, the mother of James Burnett, died in this city yesterday morning, May 31, 1888, in her 100th year. She was born March 13, 1789 in Campbell County, Virginia, the daughter of John and Mary Webber Finch, and there married William Burnett December 16, 1818; removed to Missouri in 1846. William died August 15, 1856, and she came to live with her son in Iowa in 1866. She was never sick a day in her life until last fall when she had a slight stroke of paralysis. Five days before her death she had another and more severe stroke which caused her death. She was strong, able to walk about, and in the full possession of every faculty, until the last attack. She had been a widow for nearly forty years, and had been a great-great grandmother for eighteen years. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. I. W. Edson at the Baptist church, at 2 o’clock this afternoon, and burial will be made in Red Oak (Evergreen) Cemetery.

THE SUN, Red Oak, Iowa, Friday, June 1, 1888
[Note: Family information included. Margaret's grandparents were John and Margaret "Peggy" Webber. John was from Germany as was John's father, Peter Henry Webber.]