Posted by Pati Blowers May on July 10, 19103 at 22:50:13:
The Hunterdon County Democrat Flemington, New Jersey
Microfilm copies of the Hunterdon County Democrat newspaper are available at the State Archives, Trenton, NJ.
December 18, 1883, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 18
Mrs. Joseph Bowlby dropped dead in her home at South Asbury on Wednesday morning. her husband and a large family of children, are sadly bereaved by her sudden death. Mrs. Bowlby was about 70 years of age, and had borne and raised sixteen children. Her mother, Mrs. Melroy, is yet living and is 100 years of age.