Mary FOWLER

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MARY FOWLER RUSLING was born November 23, 1766, at Winterton, Lincolnshire, England. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Fowler of said place. She was married to James Rusling, then of Winteringham, England, in the parish church at Winterton, May 15, 1787, as appears by the parish register of said church. She died at Newburgh, Warren County, New Jersey, near Hackettstown, New Jersey, July 25, 1809, and was buried in the graveyard of the old Presbyterian church at Hackettstown. Her grave cannot be found there now, and the present old Presbyterian church there was probably built over it. My father used to say, that he had gone to said graveyard and made careful search for her grave, after this edifice was erected; but could never find it, and was of the opinion that it was under the church. My aunt Mary and half-uncle Robert, both of whom lived at Hackettstown, used to say the same. Certainly there is no stone there now to mark her grave, and my brother William Henry and myself had her name, date and place of birth and death, carved on her husband's gravestone at Asbury, New Jersey, in 1896.