Middlesex County Newspaper Abstracts


The Waltham News-Tribune, 22 January 1929

Mrs. Alice Edith Oxton, wife of Alfred J. Oxton, of 12 Charles street avenue, passed away at the Waltham Hospital on Sunday after a brief illness due to pneumonia. She was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, daughter of William McGill and Rebecca Melvin Scott, her mother being a native of Halifax. She has made her home in this city for about twenty nine years and was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

Besides her husband, who is seriously ill at the Pondville Hospital at Wrentham, there survive one son, Roy Oxton, a pupil in the Waltham Senior High School; four sisters, Clara Scott of Salem, Mrs. Susan Wotton of Friendship, Maine, Margaret Scott of Antrim, New Hampshire, and Mrs. Francis Mulhall of Wollaston; and two brothers, William Scott of Hartford, Connecticut, and Robert Scott of Cambridge.

Mrs. Oxton, who has made a brave fight since her husband's illness, was devoted to her home and family. She was ill only a few days from pnuemonia and pleurisy.

Submitted by dja

1929 Newspaper Abstracts
Middlesex County Massachusetts

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