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Monday, 31 May 2010 17:48
Eliza Jane Hodgson
Sept. 18, 1829-March11, 1904


    Mrs. E.J. Hodgson passed peacefully away at 9:45 a.m. yesterday at her home on Lake street after a lingering illness of nearly seven months.  
    She was born in Delaware Sept. 18, 1829, came to Michigan when five years old and had resided in the neighborhood where she died most of the time since.  
    She was twice married and was the mother of seven children, four of whom are left to mourn her loss, William, Charles and Miss Edith, who resided at the homestead and Edwin of Detroit, also two granddaughters.  Mrs. Hodgson was a life long member of the M.E. church from which place the funeral will take place Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

(Source: Niles Republican, Thursday, March 17, 1904, page 1 col. 2, reprinted from Niles Daily Sun, Saturday, March 12, 1904, microfilm Niles District Library)
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