Margaret McDonald (1882)

THE DAILY EXAMINER, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1882

DEATH: MACDONALD - At Clear Spring, Lot 45, on the 1st ult., Margaret McDonald at the advanced age of 100 years. The deceased was born in South West Invernesshire, Scotland, and emigrated to this Island, when over twenty years of age, in 1802. She was married three years afterwards to the late Donald McDonald, and when the youngest of eleven children was twenty years of age, her husband died, and she has been a widow for the last thirty-five years, retaining her senses and faculties in a remarkable degree to the last. She did her full share of the hospitalities incident to a new and thinly settled country, and has left a large circle of friends and acquaintances to cherish her many acts of charity and kindness.