Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries..... Mary E. MANLEY, 1908
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, Wednesday 10 June 1908: 
"DIES AT AGE OF 108 YEARS--Mrs. Mary E. Manley Passed Away Last Night--
WAS BORN IN YEAR 1800--She Was Perhaps the Oldest Woman In the State--
Saw Cumberland Grow From a Village Into a Good Sized City--Mrs. Mary 
E. Manley died last evening at 7 o'clock at the residence of her 
granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Manley Brown, 18 Orchard Street.  Mrs. Manley 
was in her one hundred and eighth year at the time of her death and was 
no doubt the oldest woman in the county if not in the state.  Her death 
resulted from a stroke of paralysis sustained Monday. She was a native 
of County Mayo, Ireland, where she was born July 4, 1800.  She came to 
America eighty-five years ago, first settling in New York and later in 
Cumberland, traveling the distance to this city in a wagon.  There were 
no railroads then and Mrs. Manley, whose mind was quite clear until 
within a few days of her death, remembered well the appearance of the 
first train that entered Cumberland and the excitement that attended 
it.  Her husband helped build the railroad.  She also remembered well 
the recent fire that almost destroyed Cumberland.  She remembered 
Cumberland when it was a small village, and saw it grow into a city.  
Previous to her marriage she was a Miss Mary Welsh, daughter of Thos.
Welsh. She was the mother of three daughters and one son, all of whom 
are dead except her son, Patrick Manley, who resided recently in 
Chicago, but whose whereabouts are now unknown.  She leaves sixteen 
grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren.  Her remains will 
be buried Thursday morning, with services at St. Patrick's Church at 
8 o'clock."
 

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