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Subject: RE: McGINNESS/POTTER
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:46:23 EST

Here is the obit of Eliza McGINNESS POTTER, in hopes that it will
prick someone's memory.

Cheers, Dona
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Stawell News and Pleasant Creek Chronicle, November 28, 1905.

After an illness extending over a period of nine months, Mrs. John Potter, of
Joel Joel, passed away at her residence on Saturday afternoon. The deceased
lady suffered from a lingering illness, for which she was unsuccessfully
treated
at Dr. Moore's private hospital in Melbourne. She was a very old resident of
Victoria, landing here as a child over fifty years ago with her parents.
Mrs. Potter was one of the earliest settlers on the Green's Creek district,
having lived there for 37 years, during which time she had drawn around her
a large circle of friends by her kind and loving nature and sympathetic
character, and her demise at the comparatively early age of 59 years, though
for some time anticipated, has deeply shocked them. The greatest sympathy
is felt for the bereaved husband, who is so well known and generally esteemed
throughout Wimmera district, and for the family of five grown-up children,
comprising four sons and one daughter. The funeral took place at the Stawell
cemetery yesterday afternoon, the lengthy cortege serving to show how
sincere was the regard for the deceased, and how deep the sympathy for the
sorrowing family. The Rev. Walter Walsh read the burial service, and the
obituary arrangements were satisfactorily carried out by Mr. F. Crouch.

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