source: Republican Advocate, June 30-1863 DEATH OF MRS. TRUMBULL CARY. The demise of Mrs. TRUMBULL CARY, of Batavia, New York, which took place on Monday last, is an event worthy of more than mere passing notice. At the time of her decease she was the oldest female resident of all that section of the State lying West of Genesee River. She went to Batavia in the Spring of 1804, accompanying her brother, the late James Brisbane, Esq., and making a considerable portion of the journey on horseback. From that day until the commencement of the present week, she had resided continuously at Batavia. Prior to the war of 1812, the 'Holland Purchase,' as it was then and is now frequently called, by the older inhabitants of 'Genesee county,' was little better than a wilderness. Now it is the garden of the State-the finest wheat growing country in the world, and contains a population of a million. At the period of her decease, Mrs. Cary alone could say, I have been longer here than any of the half million females now on the soil, and have beheld a! country grow from the first rude fellings of the forest axe up into a terrestrial paradise! Aside from the honor of having been the pioneer woman of the West, Mrs. Cary had high claims upon the respect and regard of all who knew her. She was a lady of great intelligence and refinement, and most amiable and winning manners, abounding in all womanly virtues and charities, thoughtful for the welfare of those about her, and ever mindful of the indigent and afflicted. By the mere youthful of her acquaintance she was esteemed and beloved with a feeling rising almost to reverence. Gently and gradually has she yielded to the march of time and gone to her final rest:- "As one who wrappeth the drapery of her couch about her And lieth down in pleasant dreams." submitted by Linda Editor for ~ Bethany: The Present and the Past ~ http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/ Author of ~ *Bethany, 1800-1900: The Poor House and the People *The Poems of Mrs. Mary E. Erwin Hobbs