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Marriage: Children:
  1. William M. Bickett: Birth: 1862 in Mercer Co., Illinois. Death: in Mercer Co., Illinois

  2. Mary C. Bickett: Birth: MAY 1869 in Mercer Co., Illinois.

  3. Melley P. Bickett: Birth: 1870 in Mercer Co., Illinois. Death: in Mercer Co., Illinois

  4. Person Not Viewable


Notes
a. Note:   Liberty, Nebraska Journal Thursday, May 18, 1899.
 Margaretta A. Betts was born in West Moreland, Co., Pennsylvania April. 6, 1833. She came to Illinois in 1856 and was married to Thomas Bickett at Aledo, Illinois on Christmas Day 1860. They moved to Gage Co., Neb ., in Dec. 1894.
 For about four years she has been an intense sufferer and died at noon Saturday May 18, 1899 while undergoing an imperative operation for Strangulated Hernia.
 She was the mother of four children, three of whom died in infancy one daughter survives her, and assumes the mother mantle in the home, In additional to her own children, She raised two motherless children.
 While young she united with the unknown church, and after marriage joined the Methodist church of which she was a member at the time of her death .
 Her religious life was quiet and retiring but she projected her character in spirit of God on the life about her.
 She lived for others, in the midst of her constant suffering she gave her life to others.
 A faithful wife and loving mother she approximated Soloman's portrait of the true woman.
 During half a century she had been becoming one of God's Noble woman and she has entered into her rest.
 "Give her the fruits of her hands: and let her own works praise her in the gates"
  Margaretta�s Aunt Mary Bitts, married John Varner of Freeport, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania, both Mary and John Varner died in Freeport. Margaretta�s Aunt Anna Bitts, married first William Bates, second William Golden, all of which died in Freeport.
 Margaretta�s Siblings: Freeport, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania. Grandparents: Wilhelm Bitts and Anna Silvius, Freeport, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania.


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