DEATH OF OLD INHABITANT
Full of Years
Died: In West Salem, March 2, in the 97th year of her age, Mrs. Mary Parker, widow of the late Sam’l Parker.
The
deceased was one of the early settlers of this county. She came to the
Settlement on the Shenango, as it was known, in the year 1800, from
Westmoreland County, and settled on the tract of land on which she
lived the remaining 74 years of her life. The deceased was,
emphatically, one of the daughters of toil and industry, coming here
while the “Sons of the forest” were occupants of the soil. She endured
all the inconvenience of uncivilized neighbors, which, added to the
hardships peculiar to pioneer life, enabled her to see all of the dark
side of the picture so often realized in the drama of human life. But
to discouragement she never yielded. Perseverance was ever her
motto. The brick house two miles west of this place in which she lived
until within a few weeks of her death, stands as a monument to her
perseverance, she and her husband having made the bricks with their own
hands.
She was the mother of 8 children, 45 grand children and
74 great-grandchildren, a majority of whom still make their native
township their home while some have removed to the Western States.
She was buried in the Foulk burying ground, near the State line of Ohio, where her husband and been laid a few years since.
Source:
The Record-Argus, March 6, 1875, Page 5. via Newspapers.com
(https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-argus/102019899/ :
accessed June 23, 2023
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