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I discovered the following notice while searching microfilmed newspapers for Putnam Co., Indiana...
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The Indiana Press
Greencastle, Indiana
Saturday January 15, 1859
Vol. I - No. 85
Page 1 - Column 1
Mrs. Rebecca Cutright died in Upshur County, Virginia on the 5th ult., at the extraordinary age of one hundred and six years. An obituary of her says: She was the first white woman who settled in the valley of the Buckannon river, coming to Western Virginia when quite young, and living with her husband in a hollow tree, at the mouth of Turkey run, in what is now Upshur county. - The deceased retained all her faculties in vigor until the close of her long and eventful life, and on the morning of her decease was caressing one of her great-grand children, when, feeling weary, she requested the child "to be quiet while granny would lay down and sleep."
The venerable old lady then laid down upon her bed and "slept the sleep that knows no waking." Her descendendants number between four and five hundred.
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