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- Mrs. Geo. A. BACKENSTOE, aged 90 years, died about
midnight Tuesday, March
- 6th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary MAGEE
of Beloit. Funeral services will be held in Beloit at 12 o'clock
Friday and the remains will be brought by auto to this city for
burial.
- The family resided in this city for many years and will be
remembered by the older
- residents here. Mrs. BACKENSTOE's maiden name was
Ellen [M.] HOXIE and she was married to Geo. A. BACKENSTOE
in 1847. Her husband died in 1895.
- She leaves five children; Mrs. Lizzie ENSIGN, Mrs.
Mary MAGEE, and Charles
- BACKENSTOE, all of Beloit; Mrs. Kate RICHARDSON
of South Dakota, and Mrs. Maud HOISINGTON of Dodgeville.
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- Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery.
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