Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Raitt, Margaret Bouchard Ollphant May 6, 1918
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Morgan Hill Times, May 10, 1918
Died, in Morgan Hill, Cal., May 6th, 1918, Mrs. Margaret Bouchard Ollphant
Raitt, widow of the late Professor William Raitt, M.A.B. Sc., Glasgow, Scotland.

Death of Mrs. Margaret Raitt
     Mrs. Margaret Raitt, mother of Margaret, Roberta and Phillip Raitt, died at
her home on Dunne avenue, Monday, May 6th, 1918.  Mrs. Raitt was born November
3rd, 1849, in Ireland, although of Scotch parentage.  Her father was William
Ollphant of the House of Gask, Perth, Scotland, and an officer in the British army.
     She was married in 1871 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the late William Raitt,
Professor of Mathematics in the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College.
 After his death in 1898 she went out to New Zealand with her son and two
daughters to be near her elder son, who had gone out the year before.  When he
died, seven years later, she came almost directly to Morgan Hill, where she has
resided for the last fifteen years.  She is survived by her three youngest
children, there being three older ones who died I youth.  She was a devoted
mother and a kind friend.
     The funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon, Rev. W. B.
Gillespie of the Presbyterian church officiating.  The interment was at Mt.
Hope. Cemetery.


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