| Obit For | Mrs. Jane Weathers |
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| Headline | Washburn News |
| Text | Mrs. Jane Wethers [Weathers] died Tuesday, May 16, at the extreme age of 92 years, 7 months and 1 day. Jane Yarber was born in Sumner Co., Tenn., about twenty miles from Gallatin, on the Cumberland River. She married James Wethers, [Weathers] who died July 7, 1896, 92 years, 5 months, and 23 days old. Prior to Mr. Weather's death they were the oldest married couple in Barry County. In 1829 they removed Warrick Co., Ind., where they lived until May 10, 1843, when they started for the Sunny Southwest, arriving at Cassville June 23, 1848, at which time there was but one family living here in a log house. She was the mother of ten children of whom nine are living, the oldest 70, the youngest 40. She could count about seventy grandchildren and over sixty great-grandchildren. |
| Newspaper | Cassville Republican |
| Date | May 25, 1899, Thursday |
| Death Cert | - |
| Resource | State Historical Society of MO |
| Submitted by | Donna Cooper |
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