From: SauWilliams@aol.com Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:08:03 EDT Subject: Re: Roxavannah Briggs Parcher Kirkland news article To: Dick@rgcle.com Evidently, the first part of this article was cut off. Here it is again. AN OCTOGENARIAN: How Mrs. Roxa Kirkland Began Her Eightieth Year Special to the Forum. LIBERTY, July 28. - Last saturday will long be remembered by the friends and neighbors of Mrs. Roxa V. Kirkland, wife of Robert Kirkland, Esq., of Liberty township, it being her eightieth birthday. Mrs. Sallie Parcher, nee Merriss, her two daughters, Mrs. Jay McCaskey and Mrs David Blowers, Mr. John Trimble and Daughter, Mrs. Mary A. McMichael, Mrs. Nancy Chandler and daughter Lillie, Mrs. Kate McCurdy, Mrs. Malissa McCurdy, formed a surprise party for the old lady which was greatly enjoyed. A FORUM correspondent visited the old lady and elicited the following facts: Roxa V. Briggs was born in the year 1800, in the State of Connecticut. In 1803 she moved to Montpelier, Chittenden County, Vermont, and in 1811, with her parents, moved to Canada; but not liking the government they returned to their native place in 1812, and in 1813, she, with her parents, moved to Chenango County, N. Y., and at the age of 15 years, or in 1815, she was united in the holy bonds of Matrimony to Simon Parcher. About this time her father died, and her mother remarried with Mr. (Calvin) Alvin Stone, when in 1820, all came to Crawford County, Ohio. Mr. Stone entered the farm where Joseph Wagner now lives, in Whetstone township, for a home for Simon and Roxa, also the farm where Clark Bacon now lives for his own homestead, where he died. Mr. Parcher died on the former farm in 1834, and in 1836 she remarried with Mr. Robert Kirkland who is now in his 77th year, both enjoying good health. She is the mother of ten children, seven by her former husband--six boys and one girl--and three by her latter--two girls and one boy, viz: J.R. Kirkland, of North Robinson, Mrs. James Throup, of Bucyrus, and Mrs. Wm. Chandler, of Liberty township. Novus Homo." |