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a. Note:   L5.14.1888
 HODGSON- At West Chester, on May 13, 1888, Mary Hodgson, aged 78 years.
 Funeral on Wednesday, May 16, from her late residence, No. 201 South High street. Services at 1 o'clock. Interment private.
  On Sunday evening Mary Hodgson departed this life in West Chester, in the 79th year of her age.
  Deceased was one of seven children, four sons and three daughters, who accompanied their parents, William and Ann Hodgson, from England to America in 1817. She was born at Burton-Agnes, York County, England, in 1810, and upon arrival of the family in America they took up a brief residence in New Castle, Del. and in 1818 came to West Chester. Here the deceased continuously resided up to the time of her death. The time consumed by the voyage to this country was 7 weeks and 3 days, and the journey was anything but a pleasant character.
  William Hodgson, the father of the deceased, was a local Methodist preacher, and upon their arrival in West Chester the church of this place, which was then on a circuit had but four members, namely Cheyney Nields, Thomas Ogden and wife Mollie Newlin. At the time of her decease Mary Hodgson, the subject of this sketch, was the oldest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this borough, in which she was a consistent and active worker. Of the brothers and sisters one of the former and two of the latter survive, namely Wm. D. Hodgson of Pottsville; Jane Dennis, of West Chester, and Esther Anderson of North Carolina. Deceased was widely known in this community and though she has fallen as a ripened sheaf, she will be missed and mourned by a large circle of admiring friends. Deceased, like those of her brothers and sisters who have gone before, died in rotation as they were born, all having died according to their ages, the oldest going first and the next older next. They all lived to be over 73 years of age.



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