Vital Statistics: Obits: Mrs. Lytta H. Cory, c. 1881: Coryville, 
McKean Co, PA

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From an old newspaper, date unknown.
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OBITUARY

    Mrs. Lytta H. Cory, who died at her son's residence, Captain A.H. Cory,
in Coryville, on Monday the 28th ult., was born in Benson, Vt., January 26,
1789, where she resided the most of the time until coming to Tioga County,
Pa., in 1811.  Her father coming some years previous she accompanied him,
driving a loaded team and returning alone with it to Vermont.  She was
married after her return to Thomas R. Cory, who was hurt at the raising of
a bridge across the Tioga River from which injury he survived but a few
days and died on the 15th of June, 1833, leaving her a widow with four
children, the oldest nineteen and the youngest five years old, Captain A.
H. Cory, now of Pa.,  Dr. B.F. Cory, now in Florida, A. B. Cory, now
printing a newspaper in Arkansas, and a daughter Lytta, who died in
Ironton, Ohio, in 1868.  She remained a widow, making her home with her
children, but was engaged in teaching most of the time until her
sixty-fifth year.  She came to McKean County with her children in 1837 and
has since that resided in Ohio, Missouri, Texas and Arkansas;  she has been
down the Allegany and Ohio River to Ironton, Ohio, three times and
returned.  She was with her younger son in Missouri at the breaking out of
the rebellion and fled south before the Union Army, retreating with Gen.
Price, and for two weeks was unable to get one night's rest, being so
closely pursued by the Union army; and many times when they halted to
prepare a meal, before it was ready the shells of their pursuers would
commence whizzing by, causing them to leave even before a craving appetite
could be appeased; but at last she found a safe retreat in a then small
town in Texas, but now the city of Dallas, where she remained untio the
close of the war, not hearing a word from her children north, or they a
word from her.  In the fall of 1865 she resolved to again visit her friends
in the north and set out from Dallas, riding quite a distance, first in a
lumber wagon and camping out at night before reaching steam navigation.
Going by way of New Orleans she traveled in all twenty-three hundred miles,
without seeing a face she had ever seen before.  Spending all her means she
borrowed $40 and finally reached Dr. Cory's, in Ohio, where she remained a
short time and then came back to McKean County in 1869, to her son's, where
she remained until her death.
        Mrs. Cory read for the past twenty years without spectacles and was
reading a newspaper the Saturday before her death and became greatly
interested in the subject.  She had read the bible through by course three
times and commenced it again on her ninetieth birthday and had read it over
half way through when she died.  She was awakened to the subject of
religion when only eight years old, and though she was losing her mind with
her strength in her last days, when the subject of religion was introduced
she at once would become animated and her mind would brighten up and become
as clear as the noon-day sun, repeating passage after passage of holy writ
and Isaac Watts' psalms and hymns.  One would think after hearing her
repeat them they were all stored away in her memory.  Nothing so animated
her for a few of her last years like the subject of the salvation of the
soul.  She had been a professor for eighty-four years and as she moved from
place to place she had united with some christian organization, regardless
of name, only so she could enjoy the society of christian believers and
professors.
        Rev. S.D. Morris addressed a full house at her funeral from the words of
Paul in 2nd Timothy 4 6-8.  She often said she had become so feeble she
could do no good and why she was kept alive she could not tell, but she was
willing to wait God's appointed time.

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