I found this card in one of Grandma Maurine's address books. On the back of the card in her handwriting it says: Your great grandmother's sister. Her husband was Captain of a sailing vessl and he was lost at sea so she came to make her home with my grandfather.
The stories really don't jive as to what happened to Mortimer Saxton but I thought this was interesting so I googled it and found this article.
Petoskey Evening News, Thursday, 1 Jul 1909
Mrs. Saxton, an aged woman who makes her home with her niece, Mrs. Gridley on Waukazoo avenue, is suffering from a stroke of apoplexy at her age, 89, she is in a very precarious condition.
Petoskey Evening News, 2 Jul 1909
Aged Woman Succumbs To Apoplectic Stroke: Suffered Many Years
Comfort Hanscom, daughter of Oliver and Mariam Hanscom, was born at Eliot, Maine, August 30, 1819. She early in life united with the Congregationalist church, continuing a faithful member therein to the last. When 27 years of age she was married to Mortimer Saxton. Three children were born to them, all of whom died while still quite young.
Mr. Saxton enlisted in the civil war at Portsmouth, Vt, when the first call for troops was made, but after one months service he was stricken with yellow fever and died at New Orleans.
For the past 25 years Mrs. Saxton has made her home with her only sister, Mrs. Mariam Adams. For three years they lived at Paris, Ont, moving to Detroit in 1893, and in 1895 came to Petoskey where they have since resided.
Sixteen years ago Mrs. Saxton suffered a fall upon the ice, breaking her hip, from which injury she never recovered, and death came to her relief Thursday evening.
Dr. Wilson of the M. E. church will conduct a short service at the home, 802 Wakauzoo avenue, and Mrs. Lillian Ridley will accompany the remains on the 11:24 train to Paris, Can., for interment.
Petoskey Record, 7 Jul 1909
Mrs. Comfort Saxton, aged 80 yrs, 10 months and one day, died last Thursday at her home at 802 Waukazoo avenue from a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Saxton has been a widow since the civil war and all her three children have preceded her to the great beyond. For several years she has been practically an invalid from the effect of a fall on the ice. The funeral was heald at the home at 8 pm on Friday and the remains taken to Paris, Ont, Canada, her old home for interment. Mrs. Lillian Ridley, a niece, accompanied the remains to Canada.
