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From: Eric & Eloise Labram <>
Subject: Re: Monroe Co., N.Y. May 4, 1921 part 2
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 17:43:05 -0400
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Glenda,

Thank you... This one is in my line... Her Sister, Mary Davis is my
Great- Great Grandmother. I didn't have some of this information...

If anyone has more information on this family please let me know.

Thanks again !!!

Eloise Labram


> DAILY DEATH ROLL
>
> The funeral of Mrs. Asenath LOPER was held this afternoon from the family
> home, 4174 Lake avenue, the Rev. Walter B. JORRIS of the Lakeside
> Presbyterian Church officiating. The bearers were her two grandsons, Dr. A.
> D. BURR, and Harry RIGNEY and her two great nephews, Frank and Thomas HOGAN.
> The interment was at Riverside Cemetery.
> Mrs. LOPER died Sunday at the age of 97. Ninety years have been spent in
> Charlotte. She was one of the early pioneers of this locality. She was born
> in Newark, N.Y. and came here when she was 7 years old. Mrs. LOPER has seen
> "the village at the mouth of the river," as Charlotte was called before it
> was named, grow from a wilderness to a ward of the city of Rochester. She was
> the daughter of Gabriel and Alzina LOPER who came from Connecticut. They were
> the parents of 16 children, three of whom died in infancy. Her father and
> brothers helped to fell the trees and to subdue the wild beasts and reptiles,
> thus making the wilderness a delightful place for the abode of man.
> Mrs. LOPER enjoyed talking about those early days, how her father used to
> lift her up when she was young that she might spin the flax. In the outdoor
> brick oven that her mother built, it was an usual occurrence to bake a dozen
> pies and a large quantity of bread and cake. In her younger days she was
> married to Abraham LOPER of Arcadia, N.Y.
> Mrs. LOPER leaves one daughter, Mrs. Amelia BURR with whom she lived; a
> sister, Mrs. Mary A. DAVIS of 103 River street who was 91 years old last
> November; a brother, James LOPER of Lorraine, Ohio, who was 93 years of age
> on the same day; four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
> ****

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