This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1531 Message Board Post: An obituary from The Democrat (Pike Co. IL) Thurs. Jan. 27, 1870: Mrs. Lydia Ann Troy Mittower, wife of Dr. Mittower, fell asleep in Jesus Nov. 5, 1869, in Minton, Pike Co. Ills. For many years she was a faithful Christian, was a life member of the American Bible Society and for twenty years a reader of the Observer. The above clipped from the New York Observer, is but a faint tribute to the very excellent woman, whose decease is therein recorded. She was a daughter of Hon. Daniel Troy, formerly a member of the legislature from Morgan county in this state. She, however, was born in Sangamon county upon the farm on which the Rev. Peter Cartwright now resides, and which was purchased by the latter of her father. Her uncle, Charles Troy, was the first man that ever brought a plow to Pike county, having raised corn in the year 1816 on land now owned by Mr. George Henry and lying one mile north of Time. It will thus be such that she was one of the pioneers of our noble State, a class of persons on whom much honor is due for the dangers, t! oils and privations they underwent in opening up this fertile region for settlement. (Found this in the Pike Co. Illinois Cemetery book: French (Milton) Cemetery: Dr. Abram Mittower, d 1879 (65-2-18); Mrs. Lydia d. 1862??; Wm. Mittower - no dates). PS: I am not related to this person - just copied the obituary for someone, as I am researching my own line. Gerri