This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thorp, Ament Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iRB.2ACE/2687 Message Board Post: Source: The Republican newspaper Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin 20 April 1853 Volume 1, Number 11 Page 2, Column 6, as follows: DIED In Mt. Morris, N.Y., on the 9th ult., of erysipelas, Elder Alba Thorp, aged 64 years; also on the 20th ult., of the same disease, Mrs. Ruth Thorp, aged 59 years adopted father and mother of Mrs. W. V. Ament, of Watertown [Wisconsin].