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Mother Of Judge Newkirk

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
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MOTHER OF JUDGE NEWKIRK

AND NIECE OF EX-PRESIDENT FILLMORE.

DIED AT HER HOME IN DEXTER VILLAGE TODAY ABOUT NOON.

Dexter, Mich., Sept. 1. - (Special to Daily Argus). - Mrs. Viola J. Newkirk died about noon today. She was the mother of Judge of Probate H. Wirt Newkirk and was a niece of Willard Fillmore, president of the United States. She carne to Dexter in 1842 with her family. She was married in 1845 to Sylvester Newkirk, with whom she lived happily until her death. She possessed many valuable souvenirs of her distinguished uncle.

Burton Rice the boy who was badly injured in Webster Tuesday by being thrown from a load of furniture is no better.