Isabella (Rankin) Blair was born in 1683, the daughter of David Blair, a Scottish native, and husband of Jennet Hunter. Isabella is buried at Worcester Common Burial Ground, Worcester, Massachusetts, with her husband and their son, Joseph, 1727-1804. Inscription of stone: Here lyes interr'd the remains of; Memento mori. (Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds in Worcester, Masschusetts, from 1727-1859) [1]
Obituary for Isabella - We hear from, Worcester, that lately died there Mrs. Isabella Blair, aged 82 years formerly a noted Midwife in that Place. She hath left a husband aged 80, eleven children; ninety-three grandchildren; twenty-two-great-grandchildren; in all one hundred and twenty fix. She lived with her husband fifty two years, and during that time her own death was the only one that happened in the family. She was decently interr'd in the new Mode. (Taken from "The Boston Evening Post" Saturday, April 15th, 1765)
Miller, Thomas, Historical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Colchester County, A&W MacKinlay, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1873, Pg. 167.
Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 37
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Common Burial Ground, Worcester County, Massachusetts.