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A LONG LIVED FAMILY.The following communication con- jcerning a family of marked longevity will be found of interest:Editor Courier:Referring to youi* account of the recent death of my aunt, Mrs. Lucinda Marsh, at the remarkable age of 101 years and eightmonths, I will,1 with your permission, give a few additional facts of family history. Several other members of her father’s family lived to be very old peo-pie but their exact ages are not' known to the writer, and her own J eight surviving children have reach-1 ed an average of 69)£ years. Her j husband, William Marsh, was also one of a family of more than average longevity. He was the secondson of Richard and Mary Pattison j Marsh, grandaunt of the lato Gov. John M. Pattison. Richard Marsh, j one of the early pioneers of Stone-; lick township, settled in the unbroken forest on the farm now owned and occupied by hisgrandson DanielD. Marsh. Of the nine children of. Richard and Mary Marsh, two died i soon after reach adult age. The oth- j ers, six brothers and one sister, married and the fourteen persons thus united attained an average of more i than 75 year.-. Their ages did not widely vary, the oldest having reached 84. While Richard Marsh died at the age of 51, his widow survived to reach 74, and his father preceded him by only two years at 96. The Marsh brothers were sturdy sons of the soil; diligent in business, earnest as Christian citizens and loyal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church, the church of their choice. Many of the older people remember their brother-in-law, the late John Hall, of Mt. Carmel, eminent among the Methodist laymen of Clermont county. Possibly no other frmily in the county hasex-ceeded this family in average ofvp»re. MAH 1.0N MARSH.
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The Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 12, 1907
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