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ULU fl VllA V(Continued from page one)fall, when the chicks had reached maturity, they were sold for AO cents apiece. The young bride had received ft lldy sum of $]2 for her summer’s work. 'For several years the Furdy family continued to live in the wide open country. Here their baby daughter, Daisy, was born, and It was here that she was taken by death at the age of three years. Then Mr. and Mrs. Furdy moved to Colorado, where they .spent a few years, more.Crop FailuresHowever, a number of successive crop failures there resulted Sn ft hasty decision to return to Indiana and Morgan township. The Jong trek this time was made In a horse-drawn covered wagon. After 15 years in the west they returned here, this.time to become permanent residents.The Purdy farm northeast of Malden, has since been the home of this pioneer woman. The husband died a number of years ago.* Following his death', Mrs. Purdy spent three years in San Diego,' Calif. k Rnd then returned here to reside with her son and family on the Purdy farm.Mrs, Purdy is the niece of a Morgan township centenarian, the late Sylvester Lewis. One of a family of eight, only she and a brother, Oscar Lewis, of Brooklyn, Miss., are living. She represents the eldest of four generations of the Lewis family. She has one son, Ray, of Morgan township, a granddaughter, Mrs, Belly Jean Barber, of Valparaiso, and a great grandson, Kenneth Barber.Among a number of nieces and nephews are Mrs. Henry WilliamEon and Mrs. Robert Baum, both of Morgan township. Betty Lou and Robert Baum, Jr., are grandniece and nephew.
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Tue, May 03, 1949
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Porter C.
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