Message Boards

You are here: Message Boards > Localities > North America > United States > States > West Virginia > Counties > Upshur > Mrs. Rebecca Cutright dies at age 106
Names or Keywords
All Boards   Upshur - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Mrs. Rebecca Cutright dies at age 106

  Replies: 10

Mrs. Rebecca Cutright dies at age 106

j_endris  (View posts) Posted: 22 Jan 2008 12:10PM GMT
Classification: Death
Surnames: Cutright - Truby
I discovered the following notice while searching microfilmed newspapers for Putnam Co., Indiana...

Research indicates this is Rebecca Truby wife of John Cutright

-------------------------------------------------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------

I do have a copy of the image and will send to anyone interested
  Viewing 1 - 10 of 11  |  Next >>
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
j_endris 22 Jan 2008 12:10PM GMT 
jkruzich1 4 Feb 2008 5:21AM GMT 
KarenSipes81 8 Feb 2008 1:46AM GMT 
j_endris 9 Feb 2008 3:24PM GMT 
KarenSipes81 10 Feb 2008 12:46AM GMT 
jteets2 9 Feb 2008 3:12PM GMT 
rjzellis 19 Feb 2008 1:30AM GMT 
vkramarski 23 Feb 2008 12:48AM GMT 
vkramarski 23 Feb 2008 12:49AM GMT 
pambevington1 24 Feb 2008 9:21PM GMT 
   
Results per page    Viewing 1 - 10 of 11  |  Next >>

Find a Board

Page Tools