This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLOOM Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/odB.2ACI/474 Message Board Post: SHELBY INDEPENDENT NEWS (Shelby, Richland Co., Ohio): 28 December 1871, Vol. 4, No. 9 DIED -- At Goshen, Indiana, on December 14, 1871, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bloom, Miss MATILDA BLOOM, aged 43 years, 7 months and 21 days. The subject of this notice was born in Perry County, Pa., April 28th., 1828, and died at Goshen, Ind., on Thursday, December 14th., 1871. The deceased has long resided near Shelby, and is known to have been sadly afflicted for many years with epileptic fits -- being a great burden to herself, and her devoted mother who had charge of her.