Margaret Oliver was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland and came with her parents to Muskingum Co. Ohio in 1855, and in 1862 she came with her parents to Morgan Co., Ohio. In 1873 she was married to J. R. Bozman of McConnelsville, by which union was born a daughter, who prededed her mother to that sweet by and by. Mrs. Bozman departed this life January the 30th, 1892, in the fifty seventh year of her age, at the home of her sister near Neelysville, where she came last summer on account of ill health.
Mrs. Bozman embraced the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ in the days of her youth, and united with a Baptist Church in Muskingum Co., O. Wills Creek Association, from which church she received a letter of good standing and united with the M. E. church of McConnelsville.
Her last illness, which was lung trouble, was bourn without a mumur. Her last moments were calm and peaceful and she sweetly fell asleep.
Rev. Starrett conducted the funeral services and preached to an attentive audience, in Hopewell M. E. Church.
The remains were interred in the McConnelsville Cemetery to await the resurrection of the just.
Obituary transcription by Linda Speer included as part of her report “Descendants of Wilkes Bozman”, received Oct. 2003