Orem, Eliza Boso

Passed: 1935-05-19

Age: 97

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1935-05-24

Information:      ILLNESS PROVES FATAL ON MONDAY.  Mrs. Eliza Orem Died Monday.  Was in Ninety-Eight Year.  Mrs. Eliza Boso Orem, Jackson county's oldest citizen, died at her home on Pond Creek, Monday, May 19, 1935.  She was 97 years old last March 4th and following the death of Mrs. Lueretia Barnett last winter she was the county's oldest citizen.  The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock and burial was in the home cemetery.  Since the death of a son some time ago Mrs. Orem had lived alone at the old homestead on Pond Creek. Mrs. Orem was born on March 4, 1838, during the administration of President VanBuren and 23 years before the opening of the Civil War.  She was one of a family of ten children of Charles and Sallie Anderson Boso.  She was a link which connected the present with the days of the pioneer, days when settlers lived in fear of warring Indians and she experience the hardships so common among those who settled up the wilds of the Ohio Valley.  Her father, Charles Boso was born near the mouth of Hocking River on a raft anchored from short a short distance for protection against the Indians.  What a brief span of years has elapsed since our country was a land of pioneers and Indians.  But in spite of hardships, Charles lived to the ripe old age of 108 years.  He built and operated the old water mill a few yards from the Wood and Jackson county line on Little Pond Creek.  For miles and miles folks came to the old mill to have their corn ground, for corn more than wheat was the ""staff of Life.""  Tradition has it that at the age of 102 years, Charles Bosom walked to Parkers burg where he transacted some legal business, then he walked home again, a distance of several miles.  Charles Bosoms' father came from France with Lafayette during the Revolutionary War of 1776.  He fought with the United Colonies for their independence.  He married an American girl of German parentage by the name of Barbara Frick, of Pittsburgh, Pa.  Mrs. Orem is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sally Delaney, of Williamstown and Mrs. Mary Bell Jarrett of Sherman.  When news of the death of his aged lady came to Ripley many said that her death left Uncle George Sayre ________ the county's oldest living person.  Data was not immediately available to determine whether or not that was true.