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Death
Name: Silas Root
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Westfield
Death Date: 08 May 1871
Death Place: Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Age: 76
Birth Date: 1795
Birth Place: Westfield
Occupation: Farmer
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Marital Status: Married
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Father's Name: Silas Root
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B50052-7
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film Number: 185476
Reference ID: p 56
'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FH1K-1LW : 10 December 2014), Silas Root, 08 May 1871; citing Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference p 56; FHL microfilm 185,476.'
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