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Longevity of Marshfield
A few persons here have attained to the age of 90 years.
Dea. Spencer died at 90
Mrs. Capron over 90
Mrs. Cree, 94
Mrs. Austin, 94
Mr. Joel Parker and wife resided in this place a year or two. Some few years since, Mrs. Parker had attained to the great age of 97, and on her birthday sung two hymns to a neighbor who called upon her.
Mr. P. was 10 years younger. They have both recently died in Northfield, she in her 100th year.
Aged persons who have died in town within 4 or 4 years
Daniel Young, 91, and his wife Lydia, 85
Sylvester Loveland, 88, and his wife, 84
Mary Bemis, 84
Samuel G. Bent, 81
Ira Smith, 80
Abijah Bemis, 86
Willard Benton, 83
Aged persons now living (1881)
Dr. Asa Phelps, 85
Lucy Bemis, 86
Sally Dwinell, 86
Mary York
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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