FAMILY RECORDS
Hutchinson Family Bible
The
Holy Bible
containing the
Old and New Testaments
Translated Out of
The Original Tongues;
and with the former
Translations Diligently Compared and Revised
New York: American Bible Society, 1848
Inscription
D. W. Hutchinson
Presented by his mother
December 25th 1870
Obituary on page opposite inscription
Death of Mrs. Nancy Hutchinson
Within less than a week after the death of Mrs. Martha Cutler and residing
directly across the street where Mrs. Cutler lived, died Mrs. Nancy Hutchinson,
the relict of the late Judge Miron Hutchinson. After the death of Mrs. Cutler
she was the oldest person residing in Girard borough, having attained the ripe
old age of 87 years. She also had retained her mental faculties to the last
moment, but had for several years not enjoyed as good bodily health as Mrs.
Cutler, and for the last four or five months was entirely blind. She breathed
her last early Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Hutchinson was closely connected with the earliest history of this borough
as will be seen by the following brief biographical sketch : She was born in
Saratoga Co., N.Y., June 12th, 1792. Her maiden name was Nancy Wells. She
married Miron Hutchinson, (the late Judge Hutchinson), in Fenner, Madison Co.,
N.Y., and with him removed to Girard in the spring of 1818, her brother Joseph
Wells, coming and settling here at the same time. Her father, Thurston Wells,
had preceeded them some time, and had purchased 200 acres of land, upon which
the bulk of our borough now stands. Upon his death the land was equally divided
between her husband and her brother Joseph. The latter donated the public square
to the new town about being laid out on the lands comprising the Wells farm and
named the town Girard, out of compliment to Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hutchinson's mothers name was Irene Badger; she was descended from the
Thurstons and Greenes of Rhode Island, and was not a very distant relative of
General Nathaniel greene, the Rhode Island blacksmith of Revolutionary fame. She
was a good and true woman, and a kind and affectionate mother. She is survived
by four children, namely Monroe, Mrs. Lydia Clemens, of Erie, Mrs. Eliza Olin,
and David Wells. Her funeral will take place from the residence of her son,
Monroe Hutchinson, Esq. today (Thursday) at 2 o'clock P.M.
Mar 4th 1879 written in hand along margin of obituary
Family Record
David W. Hutchinson
born June 21st 1830
died Jan 19th 1894 at 5 p.m.
Mary J. Kaiser
born August 15th 1844
died April 8 1923
were married on the
25th day of Nov. 1861
Infant Daughter
born Feb. 9th 1863
died Feb. 22nd 1863
Lydia Eliza
born April 7th 1864
died Aug. 15th 1867
Miron W.
born April 5th 1867
Irene -- born on
4th of May 1870
Frank J. born on
14th of Feb 1874
Died March 1958 (written in a different hand)
James Monroe
born on the 25th
of September
Photocopy of this record is in the possession of Marcia
Philbrick
March 1998