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Note: Great Aunt Elizabeth was a small and very quiet woman, but every now and then she would peak up and make a very funny and fitting comment on the conversation much amusing the family. Like the rest of the family, she attended Wyoming Seminary. Once, at a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society (of the Methodist Church), the pastor made some slighting remark about Elizabeth's younger sister Mary, indicating that she had not been quite honest in the handling of the Society's money, of which she was treasurer. Immediately, Aunt Elizabeth rose to her sister's defense and told the minister off in no uncertain terms. Later, when this was reported in the family, much to everyone's delight, Aunt Eliabeth said in a shocked voice, "Did I say that?!" After the death of her brother Rufus' wife, Aunt Elizabeth kept house for Rufus and raised Susan, his daughter. Elizbeth was known for her excellent butter which was never rancid (she kept the churn clean). She was able to earn about $100 a year selling her butter. After Rufus' death, Elizabeth and Susan remained in the Trumansburg house. One night when she was an old lady she got up and may have grown dizzy as she fell down the stairs. From then on she was bed ridden and appeared not to know anyone. Susan took loving gentle care of her until her death in 1953.
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