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Funeral Notice · primary-source record

Elsie Hunt

October 6, 1870 (date of the telegram announcing her death)

Died 6 October 1870 · death announced by telegram

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Funeral Notice

Date of death

October 6, 1870 (date of the telegram announcing her death)

Place of death

Barnett

From the funeral card

To Darwin Mason, New Hampshire

Barnett, Oct. 6, 1870

Your mother Elsie Hunt is dead. Funeral Saturday at 11

The original document is a telegram announcing the death, sent from Barnett to Darwin Mason in New Hampshire, rather than a printed funeral card. The photograph that originally accompanied this record is no longer held in the archive.

People named in this record

  • Elsie HuntSubject
  • Darwin MasonChild

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Source & citation

Source type
Transcription only
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-06-12
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Image vs transcription
Transcription only — the photograph is no longer held in the archive

Citation: "Telegram announcing the death of Elsie Hunt, 6 October 1870," transcribed and contributed to the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/funeral-cards/hunt-elsie-1870/ : accessed [your access date]).

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