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- Articles from West Union, Fayette, Co, Iowa:
Obituary:
In New Hampton, Iowa September 30, Mary Stafford, aged-seventy five. She was born in Washington County, N. Y., and in early childhood moved to Wayne county in the same state, where she experience religion in the fifteenth year of her age. In the year of 1832 she moved to Granger County (Note: should be Geauga), Ohio where she lived eighteen years. In 1850 she moved to Fayette County, Iowa where she resided until three years ago, when she came to this place. Sister Stafford, at the time of her death, had been a member in good standing in the M. E. Church sixty years. Wherever she lived, the amiableness of her character and the activity and consistency of her Christian life commanded the respect of all who knew her in life. In life she was blessed. In death she was triumphant.
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