Ross County OhArchives Photo Tombstone.....Morter, Mary A. 
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Cemetery:           South Salem Cemetery In South Salem, Ohio.
Name:               Mary A. Morter

Date Of Photograph: November 6, 2008
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     This stone in the South Salem Cemetery, in South Salem, Ohio, on the 
grave of Mary A. Morter, reads "Mary A., Wife of B. J. Morter. A native of 
England.  Died April 16, 1852, Aged 34 Yrs. 1 Mo. & 4 Days.  Think!"  

Additional Comments:

     Mary Morter was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent of England.  By 
lawful order of succession to the throne, Mary would have normally become 
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, when her uncle, King 
William IV died in 1837.  However, she had forfeited all rights to the throne 
just two years before William IV died, by marrying a commoner.  Instead, her 
half-sister, Victoria, became queen in her place, and ruled for almost 64 
years, while Mary lived the rest of her life as a commoner, immigrating to 
South Salem, Ohio, in America, around 1850, and dying at the young age of 34.  
After Mary’s death, her husband, Blythe Jagward Morter, a stonemason, carved 
her gravestone, left his children in the care of friends and family, and moved 
to Licking County, where he eventually remarried.  Perhaps regretting his part 
in the way life had turned out for his dear wife, B.J. added one word at the 
bottom of her gravestone as advice for those others willing to sacrifice all 
for the sake of love . . . “Think!”
	The house in which Mary Morter and her family lived still stands in 
South Salem, less than half a block from her gravesite.  It has been enlarged 
over the years, but the original house is still there.  My great-uncle, Harry 
Hester lived in it for most of his adult life.


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