Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1906 — Lust of Widows of '75 Dies. [ARTICLE]

Lust of Widows of '75 Dies.

Rutland. Vt.. Nov. 13.—Mrs. Esther Damon, aged 92 years, the hint surviving widow of a revolutionary soldier, is dead at her home in Plymouth Union. Vt., after having been wid(«w(*d fifty-eight years. Noah Damon, her husband, enlisted at Milton. Mass., April 19, 1775, and served ft -e years. He was |>ensloned at the ago of S 9 while living at Plainfield, N. Y. When the couple were married at Bridgewater, Sept. 0, 1535. he was 75 and she was 21.