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After a long, history-making life, Mary Ann (Hathaway) Tripp died at her home on 22 William Street in
Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts on Wednesday, October 24, 1906. She was then laid to rest at Fairhaven’s Riverside Cemetery. Aged 96, she was “the oldest woman in Fairhaven, according to her
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She always looked back on that first voyage as an important event in her life, and she recalled with much amusement the efforts of
Captain Tripp and herself to visit the walled city of Canton. They were at a port not many miles from Canton and were transported to the gates by means of a car carried
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sustained no serious damage, and was able to continue on its way. When interviewed later in life, Mary Ann (Hathaway) Tripp recalled that she had never felt afraid during any of her travels but was, instead, more often left with feelings of curiosity or fascination.
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No longer in need of a large home, but in need of funding to support herself as she aged, Mrs. Tripp subsequently sold the estate where she had resided with her late husband. (The house and grounds were later purchased by
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