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Lowville Journal Republican
Thursday, 25 November 1886

         Aged 104 Years and 9 Months
         
         MRS. RELIEF BURT BODMAN died at her home in the
       village of Theresa, Jefferson county, Sunday evening,
       at the remarkable age of 104 years and 9 months. MRS.
       BODMAN was born in the town of Southampton, Mass., 
       February 22, 1782. She was a descendant of HENRY BURT,
       the English emigrant, who came to America in or before
       the year 1639, settling first in Roxbury, Mass., and
       removing in 1649 to Springfield, Mass., where he lived
       and died, having had a family of three sons and eight
       daughters. At the age of 28 years MRS. BODMAN married
       SYLVESTER BODMAN, and in 1821 they removed to Theresa,
       where she has since resided. MR. BODMAN died in 1842.
       Four years ago last February her one hundredth birth-
       day was celebrated. Many friends and relatives assem-
       bled on that occasion, and she attended the village
       church her family helped to found 57 years before.
       Hon. S. C. POMEROY, ex-United States senator from
       Kansas delivered an address. Her life was a wonderful
       one, and great were the changes that came under her
       observation. She saw the great woods disappear be-
       fore the settler's ax, and thrifty towns and villages
       spring up all over Jefferson county. She was a remark-
       able woman, possessing great hope and courage and
       unusual strength of mind. Her eyesight failed her six-
       teen years ago, but her other faculties were wonder-
       fully well preserved for one of so great age. MRS.
       BODMAN'S surviving children are MIRANDA and ATWOOD
       BODMAN, of Theresa; SYLVESTER BODMAN, of Gouverneur,
       and MRS. D. J. WAGER, of Philadelphia.
       
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