LYND, Edith Todd9, (Allen D.8, Allen7, David6, Abraham5, Abraham4, Jonah3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born in South Greece, N. Y., married a Dr. Lynd, of Buffalo, N. Y. After his death she went to live in New York City. Child: I. Robert.
A Narrative of the captivity of Nehemiah How, who was taken by the Indians at the Great Meadow Fort above Fort Dummer, where he was an inhabitant, October 11th, 1745. Giving an account of what he met with in his traveling to Canada, and while he was in prison there. Together with an account of Mr. How’s death at Canada. Exceedingly valuable for the many items of exact intelligence therein recorded, relative to so many of the present inhabitants of New England, through those friends who endured the hardships of captivity in the mountain deserts and the damps of loathsome prisons. Had the author lived to have returned, and published his narrative himself, he doubtless would have made it far more valuable, but he was cut off while a prisoner, by the prison fever, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, after a captivity of one year, seven months, and fifteen days. He died May 25th, 1747, in the hospital at Quebec, after a sickness of about ten days. He was a husband and father, and greatly beloved by all who knew him.
Mrs. Lynd Dies Of Pneumonia; Burial Tuesday Mrs. Eliza Jane (Wells)Lynd, of 1501 Y Avenue, died Saturday at the home of Mrs. Will Keltner, a daughter. Death was caused by pneumonia. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary with Rev. J. George Walz officiating. Burial will be in the Elgin cemetery. Mrs. Lynd was born in Ohio on Jan 25, 1850. She was 82 years, three months and 12 days of age. She made her home in LaGrande for the last 13 years. Previous to coming to LaGrande she made her … Read more