Vitals:  Obits:  Coulter, Margaret, Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Margaret COULTER
SUBMITTER: Vernon Cook
EMAIL: Vernon9323@aol.com
DATE: Dec 16, 1998
SURNAMES: Gardner, Coulter

Margaret Gardner, of Cookport, died November 18, 1904, aged 104 years and
10 months and 7 days. Miss Gardner had lived in the neighborhood at Cookport
for 88 years, rarely ever ill always busy and able to get around until
a month
preceeding her death.
"Aunt Margaret" as she has for years been called, has a history.
Some of it ancient history. Her father, James Gardner, came from Ireland,
located in Philadelphia, later moved to Indiana, married Mary Coulter,
daughter of
William Coulter, second settler in town and here Margaret was born and
lived for eighteen years when the streets were grown up with "blackjack"
and scrub white oak. Sometime about 1820 her father crippled, moved to
near Spruce,
loghouse, puncheon floor. Margaret the bread winner, the land purchased
eighty years ago at $5. per acre paid for with her money, taxes also. A
yoke of sturdy oxen, raised and trained by her hands, her great help.
Once she used a horse, buth that was to help her tramp down the straw in
the mow and that packing pair did good work. Her one grievance was that
no matter how hard she worked, nor how much, she got but thrity-five cents
while the men
folks got fifty. Why she never married was her own secret and she kept
it although friends knew she might have been the wife of a "circuit
rider" and has Mrs. -- placed on her tombstone.
At the age of ninety-two she rode on a neighbor's farm wagon to Indiana
to consult a lawyer on some business and back home again making sixteen
miles in the hot Sun. Peace to her ashes.

Margaret's date of birth from above would have been 1800 January 6th.....





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