OBIT: Margaret (Bishop) MORGRET, 1899, of interest in Bedford County, PA

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Mrs. Margaret Morgret,      Bedford Gazette      8/4/1899

Mrs. Margaret Morgret died at her home in Needmore, Fulton county, on
Friday. Had her life been spared three weeks, she would have celebrated, the
one hundredth anniversary of her birth. Until recently, the eyesight of
this remarkable woman was so good that she employed herself in reading,
sewing and knitting. She was never sick a day in her life until a very short
time before her death. She was an entertaining conversationalist and took
great delight in relating incidents to days gone by. In speaking of the
bitterness of the political campaigns of the past, she told of a wife refusing
to speak to her husband, who was a Democrat, because he voted for Mrs.
Morgret's brother, William Bishop, at the election in the fall of 1843, when
the latter was elected on the Whig ticket, to represent Bedford county in
the legislature. Mrs. Morgret's visits abroad were few and were confined to
occasional trips to Bedford county and to points in Maryland and Virginia.
Her husband, Job Morgret, died thirty years ago.


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