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McCracken, Martha (“Patsy”)

Personal Information
Last Name McCracken
First Name Martha ("Patsy")
Middle Name
Maiden Name Thompson
Death Date 3/3/1891
Birth Date
Obituary Source Martinsville Republican, March 5, 1891
Source Information Cemetery index/Friends Records/Diary of Elam Harvey
Cemetery White Lick
Family Information
Spouse William McCracken (died 1875)
Survived By Three children; niece, Mrs. A.E. Crawford.
Other Age 92 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Born November 22, 1798; daughter of Abel and Martha Hadley Thompson. Mother of Elizabeth Ellen, J. Wilkinson, Samuel Thompson, and Susan. "She was the oldest person in Brown Township and one of the oldest people in Morgan County." [From the Diary of Anna Stanton Harvey for March 3, 1891: "Martha Mc. Cracken, Eliza Hadley's mother, died of old age, being 92 years old and the oldest person in Mooresville."] She and her husband opened their home as a boarding house which became the well-known McCracken House, later run by their son J.W. and his wife for many years.
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