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Ella Rebecca (Eddowes) McKibbin (1847-1922)

Descended from English and Welsh gentry, as well as Pennsylvania Quakers, Ella Rebecca Eddowes assisted her husband in his operating room and helped to tend to his many patients. It was she who chose the name "Amaranth" for the new post office that went in on her road, naming it for a flower. In 1917, after her husband's death, she made two trips west to Montana, North Dakota and Missouri, visting her children. From her experiences, she wrote several travel articles which appeared in a Fulton County newspaper.

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