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Subject: [MDGARRET] Oliver, Stark, Custer-Morrell obit
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:00:28 -0400


Barbara,
Here is the greatest clue for our Stark family!! Guess
quite a few missed it in my long letter the other day. <g>
I know there are at least 5 people on this List who are
researching this Stark line.

Now to prove it is true!!!!!

=;o)
Carolyn

KEYSER TRIBUNE
KEYSER W VA
JANUARY 17, 1913

CLAIMED ROYAL KINSHIP

Cumberland Jan 10 -
Mrs Susannah Custer Morrell, widow of Lorren Morrell, is
dead at her home
in Meyersdale, aged 77 years. She was a daughter of David
Custer of Garrett
County Md, and was a cousin of Gen Custer, who was massacred
at the battle of
the Little Big Horn.
Through her mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Start
(should be Stark--cs), Mrs Morrell could trace her
connection to the Oliver family of England, and through that
family to the royal family of England. She was twice
married. her first husband was
G W Potter of Barton, this county, who died six months after
their marriage.
Seven years after the death of her first husband she married
Lorren Morrell
of New York State.
Mrs Morrell was for many years an enterprising business
woman of Meyersdale.
One son, Charles Morrell, of Washington and two daughters,
Mrs Anna McCarty
of Delaplaine VA and Miss Hattie Morrell, survive; also one
brother, Sampson
Custer of Connellsville Pa and one sister, Mrs Isabel
Sweitzer of Garrett Co.
(Isabel is my 2gr-grandmother--cs)

=;o)
Carolyn


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