Cornelia C. Atherton

   Cornelia C. Atherton, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Atherton, was born in Greenfield Township, near Peru, Huron County, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1850; died Feb. 27, 1918, aged 67 years, 5 months, 14 days.  November 17, 1870, she married George Delano Silliman and they have lived together more than forty-seven years, the greater part of the time being spent on their farm south of the village of North Fairfield, Ohio.  For the past forty-five years she has been a consistent member of the Congregational Church.

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