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Subject: Margaret Macomber BURRIDGE (1834 - 1930) Obit
Date: 19 Nov 2005 13:42:22 -0700

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Surnames: Burridge, Macmber, Hawley, Cumings, Klatt
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From
The Painesville Telegraph
Painesville, Ohio
(Lake County)
Friday, April 11, 1930

MRS. MARGARET
BURRIDGE, 96, IS
TAKEN BY DEATH

Was a Pioneer Resident
of County; Funeral
on Saturday

Margaret Macomber Burridge, of Mentor, widow of Captain Eleazer Burridge, Civil War veteran, died at the home of her daughter, Emma B. Hawley, Erie and Richmond streets Thursday afternoon after an illness of several months.

Mrs. Burridge, one of the pioneer residents of Lake county, was born at Mentor, April 18, 1834, which has been her home for the greater part of the 96 years of a useful Christian life.

Of a family of six children, two, Levi P. and Eleazer Jr., have passed on, while four, Sarah E. Cumings, of Butler, Pa.; Emma B. Hawley of this city; Ehric P. Burridge of Mentor, and Catherine Klatt, of Cleveland, and 15 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren survive her.

"Grandma" Burridge, as her many friends called her, was one of the early members of the Mentor Christian church, of which she has always been a faithful member. She was also one of the charter members of the Women's Relief Corps to the G. A. R. of Mentor.

Funeral services will be held at the home of her daughter, Emma Hawley, corner of Erie and Richmond streets on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. E. Gais of the Mentor Church of Christ will officiate. Burial will be in Mentor cemetery.

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