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ELIZABETH MARTHA PEW

Stamford News

[People’s Press, 11 April 1907]

There passed to rest at the home of her son, Wm. F. Pew, at Cheboygan, Mich., the 8th of April, Mrs. Isaac Pew, aged 82 years, relict of the late Isaac Pew of Stamford, who departed this life about four years ago. The deceased was a descendent of an old E.U. Loyalist family, a daughter of the late William Biggar of Drummondville, and was the sixth of that generation of the family to die between the ages of 80 and 86 years. Her mother, Rebecca Green, was born two days after the emigration of her parents to Canada, about one hundred and twenty years ago, and up to the time of her death was the oldest living Canadian in the Province of Ontario. The grandfather of the deceased was a member of the well-known King’s Rangers. There survive two sons, R.H Pew of Oshkosh, Wis., and William F. of Cheboygan, Mich. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the remains being taken to Drummond Hill for interment. Six nephews of the deceased acted as pallbearers and the services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Lavelle, assisted by Rev. S.M. Gilchriese  of Chegoygan.

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