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1859 Euphemia Walker Faatz


Born: Dec. 20, 1859 in Honesdale, Wayne County, PA.

Died: Feb. 12, 1947 in Afton, Chenango County, NY; age 87

She is buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Afton, Chenango County, New York


Her father was 1826 Henry G. Faatz.

Her mother was 1825 Jane E. Mayhew.


She was married Aug. 12, 1883 to 1854 Oscar Mortimer Pulis.

Euphemia and Oscar had three children together:

  1884 Emma Jane Pulis    born Dec. 30, 1884
  1891 Lulu May Pulis     born Mar. 28, 1891
  1900 Norma Rose Pulis   born Mar. 12, 1900
  
Euphemia was a fiesty woman who was boss of her household and refused 
to be pushed around by anyone.  When daughter Lulu offered Eupemia the 
chance to move in with her and her family; she said said she was going 
to stay on the farm as it was her home.  Euphemia wore her hair in 
a bun.  She liked to take rides in the car and hated to stay at home 
if the others were going somewhere.  Euphemia and Oscar used to drive 
down to Lulu's home for Sunday dinner where Lulu would prepare delicious 
roast beef and mashed potatoes with dark brown gravy.  She used a cane 
when she was old and had an anemic condition that required her to take 
iron pills.  She died at 5:20 PM on Feb. 12, 1947 at age 87.

 - Info and photo courtesy of my cousin Charles Bryce Woodruff -    


The 1940 census for Afton, Chenango County, NY shows
on sheet 7B & 8A E.D. No. 9 (April 27, 1940):

  Euphemia Pulis     age 80, Head of Household 
  Austin Livingston  age 41, son-in-law and farm laborer
  Norma              age 40, daughter
  Margaret           age 20, daughter (of Austin and Norma)
  


The photo above right was taken on her wedding day, Aug. 12, 1883.
 
The photograph below right was taken in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 
in probably the 1890s.

The photo shown below was taken in 1909 for her 50th birthday.
I found it among my mother's effects after she passed away.
Euphemia was my mother's maternal grandmother.

Here is a link to her obituary.

-JAS-