Philadelphia County PA Archives News.....Death of Mrs Margaret Donaldson BOGGS, June 14, 1876
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Chicago Inter-Ocean June 14, 1876
Philadelphia, Pa., June 13.

Mrs. Margaret Donaldson Boggs, died here last evening aged 100 years 5 months 
and 2 days. She was born, and had always lived in Philadelphia. She was a 
cousin of Andrew Jackson's wife, and was the last surviving descendant of Mrs. 
Betsy Ross, who made the first American flag of the present pattern. On the 
10th of last January Mrs. Boggs celebrated her 100th birthday, and received 
many visitors of prominence and distinction. Her faculties remained clear, and 
her memory strong almost to the time of her death.


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