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She moved March 1854. She moved again January 1864. She resided in Vermi llion, Erie, OH in 1878. Anna, along with her husband and her eldest s on when he was a month old, started with a company for Oregon, going the o verland route with teams and wagons. They met many hard and bitter experi ences on their perilous journey, but overcame them all, arrived and settl ed in Olympia, WA. While in the west her husband met with a violent deat h. They had but moved from Olympia to Port Angeles, a small town of but f ew inhabitants, and were there only ten days when by a rush of water fr om the mountains carrying everything before it, he who had left his litt le family but one half hour before was killed. He was found the next d ay and brought back to his wife a lifeless corpse. She, with small childr en, was left among strangers to fight life's battles alone, In 1864 she r eturned to Ohio by water, to resided with her father and mother, where s he proved a most faithful and dutiful daughter, remaining with them to t he end. It was her portion to care through long sicknesses unto death, h er father, mother, grandmother and eldest brother. All which she did chee rfully and without a murmur. Her obituary says, "Although of quiet and re served nature her live has been an eventful one."
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1831 - 1902 (71 years)
