Mary (Harter) Fulton
At a jolly family reunion attended by more than ninety relatives and friends Sunday at the James Fulton home in Pleasant Valley, Mrs. Mary E. Fulton stepped off on the last lap of her jaunt toward the "gay nineties". Mrs. Fulton observed her eighty-ninth birthday anniversary last Wednesday. A daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Harter, Mrs. Fulton was born July 21, 1848, on the farm southeast of Hastings now owned by Mrs. Allie Snyder. After her marriage to Isaac Fulton she lived for many years on the Fulton homestead west of Hastings where her nine children were born. Mr. Fulton passed away in 1893. Among the guests at the reunion Sunday were all of Mrs. Fulton's five sons and three daughters, and all but three of her grandchildren. Mrs. Fulton's sons include Frank, well known Lucas hardware dealer; James, Pleasant Valley farmer; Harley, also of Pleasant Valley; Bert, who resides on the Fulton homestead near Hastings; and Gaylord of near Ankenytown. The three daughters are Mrs. Myrtle Weirick, who lives with her brother, James; Mrs. Orion Long and Mrs. Adam Bowers, both of the Bellville community. Despite her age Mrs. Fulton enjoys fairly good health, takes an active interest in affairs of the day, and assists with the housework in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Long, with whom she resides at present.
From Tri-Forks Press: July 29, 1937, Vol. 1, No. 40