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- From the Pulaski Democrat November 24, 1872:
At Lee, Oneida Co., Nov. 11th, 1872, Mrs. Martha Street, widow of Elisha H. Street, aged 85 years, 7 months and 57 days. The deceased was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1787, and moved with her husband to Lee, in this state, in the year 1808( where she continued to reside until
the time of her death. In passing through Utica and Rome at that time on their journey, they found at each place but one or two stores and a log tavern. In 1828 she buried her husband, and has remained a widow for the whole subsequent period of 44 years. Her father served in the army
during the entire Revolutionary war of 7 years. She was the mother of nine children, all of whom lived to the period of manhood or "'womanhood, excepting two who died in infancy. She survives all of her own children but three, one son and two daughters. She was grandmother to twenty three, and great grandmother to fifty children,and has one descendant living of the fourth-generation. She received her early training in the land of "steady habits," and was always strictly observant of the moralities of religion and in reverence for the Sabbath and its institutions of worship, but she did not make a public profession of religion until about 16 years since, When
she united with the Methodist church of the village of Rome. She died respected and esteemed by all who knew her for her Christian fidelity and worth. COM
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