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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.] |
