From "Poor Farm Cemetery, Winnebago County Wisconsin" by Eiler & Dunn (2010):
Mrs. Portis died ... at the County Poor House and was buried at the County Cemetery. She was 95 years old and born about 1781. ...
[From p.4 of the Thursday, 1/27/1876 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern:]
Mrs. Portis, and [sic] old lady about 95 years of age, died at the County Poor House on Wednesday evening, having been an inmate of the house for several years. Although she has a daughter and son-in-law in good circumstances in this city, they refused to give her a decent burial, but preferred to let the county bury her in the potter's field. Irving might have appropriately added to a similar expression, "How soon we are forgot when we are old."
Mrs. Portis died ... at the County Poor House and was buried at the County Cemetery. She was 95 years old and born about 1781. ...
[From p.4 of the Thursday, 1/27/1876 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern:]
Mrs. Portis, and [sic] old lady about 95 years of age, died at the County Poor House on Wednesday evening, having been an inmate of the house for several years. Although she has a daughter and son-in-law in good circumstances in this city, they refused to give her a decent burial, but preferred to let the county bury her in the potter's field. Irving might have appropriately added to a similar expression, "How soon we are forgot when we are old."
From "Poor Farm Cemetery, Winnebago County Wisconsin" by Eiler & Dunn (2010):
Mrs. Portis died ... at the County Poor House and was buried at the County Cemetery. She was 95 years old and born about 1781. ...
[From p.4 of the Thursday, 1/27/1876 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern:]
Mrs. Portis, and [sic] old lady about 95 years of age, died at the County Poor House on Wednesday evening, having been an inmate of the house for several years. Although she has a daughter and son-in-law in good circumstances in this city, they refused to give her a decent burial, but preferred to let the county bury her in the potter's field. Irving might have appropriately added to a similar expression, "How soon we are forgot when we are old."
Mrs. Portis died ... at the County Poor House and was buried at the County Cemetery. She was 95 years old and born about 1781. ...
[From p.4 of the Thursday, 1/27/1876 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern:]
Mrs. Portis, and [sic] old lady about 95 years of age, died at the County Poor House on Wednesday evening, having been an inmate of the house for several years. Although she has a daughter and son-in-law in good circumstances in this city, they refused to give her a decent burial, but preferred to let the county bury her in the potter's field. Irving might have appropriately added to a similar expression, "How soon we are forgot when we are old."
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