Mary Elizabeth Hobart

As Mary and her brother, John, were going to school one morning, she slipped on a frozen rail and fell, breaking the small bone in the right elbow joint. She never straightened her arm after that, but she could use it.

Mary married Evert Hobart in the summer of 1876. Four children. She died in the winter of 1908 of sugar diabetis. She died in middle life due to wrong diagnosis and treatment of her disease. Doctors called it a swelled finger, a felco, amputated her finger, later her hand. She went to Saginaw and they pronounced it diabetis and put her on a diet. She moved to Detroit and kept roomers in a home near Belle Isle Bridge. She died Dec. 24, 1908. Her eldest daughter Pearl married Edward Dosser, had one child, Lucy. They live on a farm near Colwood.