San Luis Obispo County Obituary

Mary Rector

Submitted by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004

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Source:  History of San Luis Obispo County, California, Oakland, Calif., 
Thompson & West, 1883, pp 381-385; Pioneer Obituary
 
MRS. MARY RECTOR – On the 12th of February, 1872, Mrs. Mary Rector died at Old 
Creek, aged ninety-two years.  The subject of the above notice was born in the 
county of Marion, State of Virginia, in the year 1780.  She came to California 
in 1857.  During a life of nearly one hundred years, she enjoyed uninterrupted 
good health, having had no sickness of any consequence during that long period.  
She was the mother of W. Rector, a resident of this county, and the grandmother 
of the wife of a fellow-townsman, Henry Francis.  She is the mother of nine 
children.  Her life was not terminated by sickness, but nature had become worn 
out, and the old lady passed away as quietly as if she were falling asleep.  The 
friends of the deceased returned their sincere thanks to the Rev. A. B. Spoons 
for his kind and faithful services and attendance during the funeral.