DEATH AT NINETY-ONE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 10

DEATH AT NINETY-ONE.

MRS. SUSAN TELFORD. LONG RESIDENCE IN PROVINCE. . A very old resident of the Auckland Province, Mrs. Susan Telford, died at the Auckland Hospital yesterday, after a biief illness, in her 92nd vear. Mrs. Telford leaves nearly 50 descendants, namely, two sons, two daughters, 21 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren. She was born afc Liverpool, her parents being Mr. and_ Mrs. Samuel Baker, who emigrated to New Zealand and settled in -Auckland in the early 'sixties: She was married to Mr. Thomas McGrevy, and on his death in 1375 she decided to leave Liverpool " with her four children, and sailed by the ship Orari in 1876 to join her father and mother in New Zealand. They had then settled at Thames, where she lived for some years. Her second marriage took place*in 1886. and thereafter she lived for a long period at Opotiki. Some 20 years ago, after her husband s death, Mrs. Telford moved to Auckland, and latterly had lived with a daughter, Mrs. F. Dryland, at Bavswater. Her other children are Mrs. E. J. Burton, of Opotiki, and .Messrs. T. and J. MrGrevy, of Auckland. Mrs. Telford retained al! her faculties in a very remarkable degree until a day or two before her death, which was due. to influenza. By virtue of her residence at Thames in the early days of the goldfield she was an honoured member of the Thames Old Girls' Association.