Source: Written by Bruce Landeck, landeckb@bellsouth.net MARY AURAND ORT Mary was born on April 12, 1837 on the Aurand family farm in Granville Township near Lewistown, Mifflin County, PA. She married Henry Kulp Ort on January 18, 1859 and they had two children, Frances and Oliver. Her husband died during the Civil War in June 1865 and she never remarried. On August 26, 1865 she applied for a Civil War widowıs pension. She raised her two children in a stone house built by the Orts and Aurands on the Ort farm next to the Aurand farm. In 1890 she moved with her daughter Frances, Francesıs husband Samuel Grimm and children, son Oliver and his family to Centralia Washington. She died in Centralia about 1919 and is buried in Mountainview Cemetery.