Edward Abel is buried at Riverside Cemetary,
Edwards, New York. Abel was Married to his 3rd
wife, Cynthia Gates, who was the same age as his
2nd daughter, Lucinda, by the time of the Typhoid
epidemic in Edwards. He then lived in the village
and worked as a blacksmith. He and Cynthia helped
their ill neighbors and caught Typhoid themselves,
dying within two weeks of each other.
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