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Mrs. Liddie Skipper Obituary


Democratic Standard newspaper Coshocton, Ohio Friday, 12/23/1904 page 2

Mrs. Liddie Skipper, the mother of Mrs. James Perkins, died at the Perkins home, on East Vine Street at 3 o'clock this morning, death caused by an abscess in the head, from which she had been suffering but 2 weeks. Mrs. Skipper made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Woodburn, at Scio, Ohio, and had been a guest at the Perkins home, in this city, since the fair. The deceased was 72 years of age, and is survived by 9 grown sons and daughters, among them being Mrs. James Perkins and Albert Skipper of this city. The others reside in the eastern part of the state. The remains were taken to Scio Wednesday morning, where they were to be interred in the Ridge Cemetery near that place. Mr. and Mrs. James Perkins and Albert Skipper accompanied the remains from here to their last resting place.

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