This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Millspaugh, Austin, Lindsay, Boak Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4460 Message Board Post: "OBITUARY Mrs. John H. Millspaugh Mary Ann, wife of John H. Millspaugh, died at her residence, 136 Wickham Avenue, Wednesday evening, November 30, in her seventy-eighth year. She had been confined to her bed for the past four weeks by general debility. She was born in May, 1821, in the house now occupied by Dr. Connor, in this city, and was the only child of John W. Wells and Mary Ann Eldred. Mr. Wells at that time kept a store on the corner now occupied by Ogden and Shimer. Mrs. Millspaugh’s mother died when she was but two years of age and she made her home with her grandmother, Mrs. Robert Boak, of Denron, attending school at Goshen and Newburgh. At the age of nineteen she was married to Mr. Millspaugh, and they celebrated their golden wedding seven years ago last February. The couple have spent all their married life in Middletown, excepting twelve years which were spent in Scotchtown. Mrs. Millspaugh was a faithful wife and mother, and was always ready to lend a helping hand to a sick neighbor, and considered her neighbors among her best friends. She was a consistent member of the Second Presbyterian Church and a devoted member of the W.D.T.U. She is survived by her aged husband and three children: Samuel Wells, proprietor of the City bookstore; Mary L. wife of Mortimer B. Austin; and John Denton at home; by four grandchildren, M. Belle, Charles A., John M. Austin and H. Millspaugh; and by two half brothers and one half sister, John H. Wells of Washington, D.C.; Jacob, and Julia M., wife of James B. Lindsay of New York City. Two other brothers Nehemiah, a soldier in the Civil War, and Prof. Frank B., of Dakota, a teacher in the government schools, died several years ago.” December 1, 1898 Middletown Daily Argus Middletown, New York ************* I am not related. If you would like a copy, please send an email to me.