On 17 May 1877, Hannah Elizabeth Shults Olds, wife of Willard Olds, died. She was buried on 19 May 1877 in the Methodist Church of Canada, Philipsburg, Province of Québec, Dominion of Canada.
The Death and Burial Record of Hannah Elizabeth Shults Olds – 1877
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Methodist Church of Canada, Philipsburg, Missisquoi County, Province of Québec, Dominion of Canada, 1877. Death and Burial Record of Hannah Elizabeth Shults, recto folio 8.
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                          folio eight
Burial:- E. Olds
Eliza Olds, wife of Willard Olds of Philipsburg
St. Armand West and county of Missisquoi, died
on the seventeenth day of May Eighteen hundred
and Seventy-seven in the seventy-fourth year
of her age and was buried on the Nineteenth
day of the aforesaid month and year by me                              [signed] J.E.Richardson
                                                 M. M.Witnesses: [signed] Willard Olds
                    [signed] Geo. W. Olds
This record can be found as image 8/20 in the Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com in the records for Philipsburg (Methodist Church) 1877. The record appears on recto folio 8 (the front of folio 8).
The initials “M. M.” under J.E.Richardson’s signature stand for “Methodist Minister” .
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