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- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday morning, September 8, 1910
Mrs. Henry Rumsey Dead at Salem
Special to the Inquirer
SALEM, N.J., Sept. 7 ? Mrs. Rumsey, wife of Cashier Henry M. Rumsey, of the Salem National Bankinhg Company, died today at her home here from the effects of a stroke of paralysis during a sojourn at Cape May, ten days ago. Mrs. Rumsey was a daughter of the late Benjamin Bassett, a prominent farmer of Mannington township, and she and her husband had been married fifty years. She came of a remarkable family. There were four children, three of whom have lived to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversaries. Mrs. Barclay Griscom having been married fifty-nine years and Mrs. Collins Allen having been married fifty-seven years, and the deceased celebrated her fiftieth wedding anniversary last Thanksgiving Day. This is the second eath in the family since the sisters were married.
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