Deaths Registered in the Town of Tisbury for the Year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
No.: 13
Date of Death: May 18. [1887]
Date of Record: Aug. 24
Name: Cynthia Chase
Sex: Fe.
Condition: Widow
Age: 99 y. 10 m. 3 d. [birth calculates to about 15 Jul 1787]
Cause: Old Age
Place of Death: [blank]
Occupation: [blank]
Place of Birth: Waquoit [village in Falmouth]
Parents: Hiram and Cynthia Swift
Birthplaces of Parents: Yarmouth & Waquoit
[Note: no birth record found, or any record of Hiram Swift in Falmouth records. Unless further evidence comes to light, it is possible the informant was confused because Cynthia outlived her husband so long, mixing up the names of the parents with the names of herself and her own husband?]