From the Archives: Obituaries:
Abigail Vosburgh 

Erie
Wednesday, January 10, 1877

            Mrs. Abigail Vosburgh, wife of the late Robert Vosburgh, deceased, died at the residence of her son, Albert, on French Street, in this city, yesterday morning, aged eighty years.

            Mrs. Vosburgh was a native of Massachusetts and with her husband “went west” in 1813, first landing at Kinsman, Trumball County, Ohio going thither by the southern tier of counties as they struck Pennsylvania, to avoid the hostile British that were then supposed to infest the whole lake region.  After a residence of five years in the then wilds of Ohio, the young couple with a family of three children “pulled up stakes” and passing into Crawford County, Pennsylvania and tarrying for a brief period, resolved to make Erie their home and arrived here in the fall of 1818, where the deceased has lived since that time, burying her husband in the year 1846 and with him raising a family of eight sons and one daughter.

            All but three, we believe are still living, as follows:  Albert, Charles and Susan (Mrs. William Dickson), Erie; Robert, New York City; Fitz James, California and George, Cleveland.  Henry and Israel being lost on the ill fated steamboat Erie and ninth, the reporter did not learn the name of.

            Mrs. Vosburgh spent an active life and was widely known by the earlier residents of the town and was respected and esteemed by all.

Malvina Baxter

James Kilgore