Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Thumbury, Margaret September 21, 1904
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Norfolk Landmark September 23 & 24, 1904
Margaret Thumbury, for Seventy-two Years a City Patient, is Dead
For seventy-two years had Margaret Thumbury, who died Wednesday in the Almshouse 
of this city, been an inmate of that institution, having entered there as a girl 
16 years old.
She was born near Lambert's Point and suffered greatly with fits, which were the 
cause of her early entrance into the Almshouse.
Both of two children born to her at the home which the city provided for her, 
are dead. One of them did not survive infancy and the other grew up and lost his 
life in trying to save some men, who were in danger of drowning on a vessel cast 
ashore.
It is quite likely that her record as to life in an almshouse has never been 
excelled, when length of time is considered. The funeral of this veteran of the 
city's poor will be held from the Almshouse today.

The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Thumbury, who died at the Norfolk Almshouse, after 
remaining an inmate of that institution for seventy-two years, took place 
yesterday morning in Elmwood Cemetery and was conducted by the Rev. E. P. Minor, 
assistant rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. There were a number of people 
interested in the old woman since her strange career became known, who were at 
the grave and participated in the solemn services of the dead.

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