102 years ago, on December 17, 1912, as later reported in the Andes Recorder, Mrs. Elmer Close Succumbs to Cancer… Born Priscilla Lidde, she was the daughter of John O. Liddle and grew up in Bovina. The paper noted that She was twice married, her first husband, Robert Bryden, being killed in a runaway accident in which the horses went over an embankment in the night and he was caught beneath the wagon. She married Elmer Close, a widower, in 1886. She was 65 at her death. Elmer survived her by over 20 years, dying in 1935.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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