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- Parish record at St. James Anglican, Newport says:"Mrs. Ward aged 80 years was buried in St. James Churchyard this 26th day of Aug. 1870 by me Henry ____"The actual Nova Scotia death record says: "Emily Ward" age 78, Widow, born Newport, father Nicholas Mosher, died August 18, 1870, Avondale, old age. Informant, J.B. Miller, registered/signed in Avondale.She was buried with her husband in the Old St. James Burying Ground, Newport, Nova Scotia. The headstone incorrectly says she died in 1868, but her actual death record is 1870 (the headstone must have been engraved years later and the year was from someone's memory). When she died she was living in Avondale at the home of her neice, Olive Miller (daughter of Increase Ward and her sister Abigail (Mosher).
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