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Mrs. Emily S. Hoyt, believed to be the oldest woman in Portsmouth, will celebrate her 96th birthday Fri day at the ancestral home at 172 North West street. The birthday will be observed quietly by Mrs. Hoyt and members of her immediate family who are able to spend the day at the home stead where the elderly woman was born in 1847. Mrs. Hoyt, who remembers easily the last five wars the United States has fought, and can tell thrilling tales of the days of Abraham Lin coln as vividly as she can those of the World war, was married to Alfred Coburn Hoyt when she was 19. Mr. Hoyt died in 1912. Mr. Hoyt has four children, two daughters and two sons. They are Mrs. James Arthur Heaton of Wash ington, D. C.; Miss Grace L. Hoyt, who lives at home with her mother, Capt. Robert E. Hoyt, USN, sta tioned in command of the naval hos pital at Annapolis, Md.; and George A. Hoyt, who lives at home. In 1938, the oldest resident of Portsmouth, Mrs. Hoyt, wrote a poem about what is often called the oldest house in Portsmouth, the Jackson house. It was published in the Herald Angust 1938. For many years Mrs. Hoyt has at tended the Unitarian church in Portsmouth. The late Mr. Hoyt worked for 30 years in the Ports mouth Sayings bank.
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Tue, Apr 06, 1943
Page 18
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