(died May 26, 1909)

Mrs. Annie M. Welch, wife of Wallace Welch of the American House, Norwood, died Wednesday May 26 aged 57 years. Less than a year ago she underwent a very serious surgical operation at the city hospital in Ogdensburg, and from the effects of this had not fully recovered when she was taken suddenly ill with heart trouble about three weeks ago. A second severe surgical operation was made necessary, which was performed at the family apartments connected with the hotel last Monday noon, by Dr. Grant A. Madill of Ogdensburg, and this seemed to promise a successful outcome, until Wednesday afternoon about 6 when a sudden decline commenced and terminated in death at 8:30. The only daughter, Miss Maude Welch, a member of the senior class at St. Lawrence University who had returned to Canton to take commencement examinations that morning reached home only about ten minutes before her mother’s death, and just in time to be recognized. The deceased was born in the Dove neighborhood about two miles southwest of Potsdam village, being the second daughter of the late George Dove and Mrs. Jane B. Dove now living in Norwood with a son. She attended the Potsdam Normal school and at the age of 16 years commenced teaching in the schools of that section, following the work of teaching until her marriage to Wallace F. Welch of South Colton in 1875. She had been a resident of Norwood for about 10 years, where she was a member and a helpful worker in the Congregational church. Besides her husband and daughter, Maude, she is survived by her aged mother, Mrs. Jane S. Dove of Norwood; five sisters, Mrs. A. L. Parmeter of Watertown; Miss Alice Dove of Norwood; Mrs. I. E. Winslow and Mrs. Charles Snell of Potsdam, and Mrs. Lewis Lukins of Acootink, Va., and three brothers, W. B. Dove of Ashley, Mich., F. W. Dove of Watertown and G. H. Dove of Norwood.

An elder sister, and the first of a family of ten children to be removed from the family circle, Mrs. Mary Deming died at Norwood a year ago last month.

(From the Friday, June 4, 1909 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).