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- Niagara Gazette - 7/21/1951
LOCKPORT, July 21-Knowing
the active life she leads, makes it
hard to believe, but yesterday Mrs.
Margaret Meyer, better known as
"Gram," celebrated her eightyninth
birthday at Hillcrest, the home
of her grandson. Bruce J. Wclton
and family, RD 4, Lockport.
If there could be imagined a
meeting of the Auxiliary lo B. Leo
Dolan Unit 410, American Legion,
or Lockport Post 2535. Veterans of
Foreign Wars, or the Hartland Conservation
club, 'with just one member
attending-that member might well
be "Gram." She seldom has missed
one. She is also a Gold Star Mother.
So far this year, she has knit 35
pairs of mittens for Christmas gifts.
All of her grandchildren and great
grandchildren are well supplied with
quilts and comforters made by her
busy fingers. Crocheted bedspreads
are another of her specialties.
Active Helper
Mrs. Welton is an active helper
about the house and her grandson
delights in saying that "Gram's"
greatest enjoyment is found in "bossing
me around." He enjoys it just
as much as Mrs. Meyer does.
"Gram's" earlier years provides a
fund of interesting stories. Born
in the Town of Pendleton, July 20,
1862, daughter of Henry and Christine
Basenberg, her mother died
when she was just a little over a
year old.
As she tells it, "Grandma Basenberg
raised me until I was ten years
old. Then my father remarried. He
took me, his new wife and all the
household furnishings and loaded
us on a freight car. We went to
the Territory of Alabama, where we
took up a homestead site and improved it. This was located at
what is now Cullman, Ala.
Returns to Niagara
When she reached the age of 17,
Mrs. Meyer returned to Niagara
county. She worked as a dressmaker
until she met Jacob B. Meyer and
married him April 26. 1881.
The couple had four children:
Theresa Meyer Fierch, who died
at Oxford, N. Y., August 24, 1945;
Frank, who died at ,the age of three;
Jacob, who died in France, November
14. 1918, during World War 1,
and Cornelia, Mrs. Claude H.Welton,
of 105 Lewis street, the only
one still living.
Mrs. Meyer has three sister;, two
living in Birmingham, Ala., and one
in Maryland; three brothers, two in
Cullman and one in Birmingham;
three grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.
On Mrs. Meyer's seventy-eighth
birthday, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Welton's
first child was born, Roanne
Dee Welton. Since then, they have
celebrated the event together and
this year their birthdays total 100
years
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1862 - Yes, date unknown