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Author: MargieRoopPearce
Surnames: Roe, Harrison, Reynolds, Calderwood, Buckmaster
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Monday, 7 February 1916
OVER A CENTURY
Mrs. Mary Roe, an Adams County Woman, Dead at Age of 103, Laid to Rest
At Spring Hill
Death Occurred at Vicksburg, Mich. --- Was Ill a Day Over a Week.
Brought back to the county of her long abiding the funeral of Mrs. Mary Roe, who would
have been 103 years old had she lived until next March 5, was held yesterday from the
Spring Hill church near Berne.
Mrs. Roe's death occurred last Thursday, February 5, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Jude Harrison at Vicksburg, Mich., and the body was brought to this county and taken
to the home of a son, Nathan Roe, near Berne, until the funeral. Death resulted from the
infirmities of old age and Mrs. Roe was ill only a week and a day. She had been in the
best of health until her last short and fatal illness. She had spent her summers in this
county and her winters in Vicksburg for the past several years. Only last November she
went back to Vicksburg, making the long trip by automobile, without any ill results. She
continue remarkably strong to the day of her death, and on the day that her demise
occurred, she had been sitting up two or three times.
The deceased was the widow of Joel Roe. She leaves the following children: Mrs. Sarah
Reynolds of this city; Nathan Roe, Berne; Joel Roe, Pleasant Mills; Susan Calderwood,
Upland; Michael Roe, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Malinda Buckmaster, Monroe; Caleb Roe, LaGrange.
There are no brothers or sisters living.
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