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| 71351 | Martha likely died in childbirth; her fourth child Calvin Whittemore d. 20 March 1776, ae. 15 days. | Farnsworth, Martha (I14124)
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| 71352 | Martha was mentioned in John's will. | [--?--], Martha (I391)
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| 71353 | Martha was twice married - 1) to Sgt. Noah Grant, Sr. of Windsor-Tolland, Conn., and 2) to Capt. Peter Buell of Coventry, Conn., latter where she is probably interred, not at Tolland as this memorial previously claimed. Martha's immigrant great grandmother, Susanna (Capen) Rockwell, was the second wife of husband Noah Grant's immigrant great grandfather Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. Revised 2/1/2016 | Huntington, Martha (I14581)
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| 71354 | Martha White was the daughter of Joel and Martha (Hall) White of Northbridge, MA. Marth White's mother, Martha (Hall) White, was the daughte of Deacon Willis Hall of Sutton, MA. | White, Martha (I1310)
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| 71355 | Martha White was the daughter of Joel and Martha (Hall) White of Northbridge, MA. Marth White's mother, Martha (Hall) White, was the daughte of Deacon Willis Hall of Sutton, MA. | White, Martha "Patty" (I1310)
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| 71356 | Martin Hall married Mrs Catherine (Foster) Hall, his brother's widow. | Hall, Martin (I1215)
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| 71357 | Martin M. Frederico, 83 GRAFTON - Martin M. Frederico, 83, passed away peacefully May 12, 2013 at Rose Monahan Hospice Home in Worcester. His wife, Muriel M. (Hall) passed away in 2006. Martin is survived by his children, Martin "Michael" Frederico, Jr. and his wife Linda of Shrewsbury, Roberta A. Maynard and her husband Brian of Shrewsbury, John A. Frederico and his wife Jane of Hubbardston and Maria L. Smith and her husband Timothy of Worcester; his grandchildren, Anthony Frederico and his wife Megan, Matthew Maynard and his wife Marlo, Amy Sinkewich and her husband Mark, Jessica Smith and her husband Jared, Katey Frederico; his brothers, Francis Frederico and his wife Ann and Thomas Frederico and his wife Bonnie; his sister, Colonel Anna K. Frederico (ret.); 8 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Martin's brother, Robert Frederico and his sister-in-law, Dorothea predeceased him. Martin was born November 5, 1929 in Worcester, son of the late Anna L. (Sena) and Martin A. Frederico. He graduated from Grafton High School in 1947 and then proudly served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Edisto, an Icebreaker traveling to the North Pole. Following his military service, he married his wife Muriel and together they would celebrate 55 years of marriage. They raised their family in Grafton as Martin began a long career working in the plastics industry, including owning and operating two of his own businesses. Those who knew Martin will remember his candor, his love of family and how he treasured the gift of time spent with the people he cared about. Martin was a member of the American Legion Delisle-Goulet Post 92 and a past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus as he and his wife Muriel enjoyed taking KOC bowling trips up and down the East coast. He was also a big Boston sports fan who loved following the Red Sox, Celtics, and Patriots. Martin's family and friends would often find him at the center of a game of cards and he could always be counted on to keep playing until the last card was dropped even if his luck had already run out. He also loved his time visiting Foxwoods Casino and was frequently seen at the Xtra Mart at a designated seat where he bought lottery tickets and also enjoying breakfast at The Donut Star in North Grafton. Martin spent the past few years of his life at The Willows in Worcester where he quickly built close friendships that added to the quality of his life. He will be dearly missed there by many friends. In lieu of flowers his family requests you honor Martin with donations to Worcester VNA Hospice, 120 Thomas St. Worcester, MA 01608 CALLING HOURS & FUNERAL MASS All are invited to calling hours for Martin Thursday, May 16th from 4pm to 8pm at Roney Funeral Home, 152 Worcester St., N. Grafton. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated Friday, May 17th at 11:00am at St. Philip's Church, 12 West St., Grafton. He will then be laid to rest at Pine Grove Cemetery in Grafton. | Frederico, Martin Michael Sr. (I652)
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| 71358 | Marvin Smith was a physician settled in practice in Westfield, MA. He was killed at Norwalk, with many other physicians, by the cars in which they were riding falling through an open bridge, as they were returning form a medical convention held at New York. The draw bridge had been withdrawn, and no signal was given to the cars and they ran off into the river. A son of Dr. Marvin Smith, in 1873, occupied his grandfather's chair as Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at Yale College. __________ "James Morven Smith, for twelve years the ackowleged head of the medical profession in Hampden county and one of the most distinguished physicians of his time in New England was born in Hanover, NH in 1806, the son of Dr Nathan Smith, who was an eminent physician and a medical lecturer and author of wide repute. James M Smith, a Yale graduate, located in Westfield,MA in 1830, practiced in that town until 1838, when he removed to Baltimore, MD. In 1841 he came to Springfield, MA and engaged in professional work until the time of his death in a railway disaster in Norwalk, CT in 1853. He is well-remembered by many of our older citizens, and recollections of his professional life are treasured memories with them." | Smith, Dr. James Morvin (I4593)
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| 71359 | Mary A Hall, administrator. | Hall, Cyrenius (I15825)
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| 71360 | Mary A. (MacDonald) Hall, 101 WEST BOYLSTON Mary A. (MacDonald) Hall, 101, died Sat. March 31 in Oakdale Nursing Center. Her husband Ralph M. Hall died in 1967. She leaves two children, Ralph P. and his wife Joy Hall of Holden and Marguerite P. and her husband Robert Chapdelaine of Oswego, NY; a sister, Veronica Condon of Waltham; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson and nieces and nephews. A son, Clifford N. Hall died in 2002 and a grandson Ralph A. Hall died in 1999. She was born in Port Hood, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, daughter of Alex and Margaret (Gillis) Hall and has lived in West Boylston for 67 years. She was a member of St. Christopher's Church in Worcester. Funeral services are private. Burial will be in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. FAY BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME, 1 West Boylston St. is handling arrangements. www.faybrothers.com | MacDonald, Mary Anne (I4605)
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| 71361 | Mary A. Pike was of Newport, NH, a lady of great worth, who died in 1840 leaving one son 5 days old. | Pike, Mary A. (I2381)
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| 71362 | Mary A. Pike was of Newport, NH, a lady of great worth, who died in 1840 leaving one son 5 days old. | Pike, Mary A. (I2381)
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| 71363 | Mary and her husband, David, removed to Maine. | Hall, Mary (I407)
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| 71364 | Mary and her husband, David, removed to Maine. | Hall, Mary M. (I407)
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| 71365 | Mary and her husband, Jonatha Whitmore had, along with other children, Henry and Charles R. Whitemore, merchants of St. Louis, MO. | Rogers, Mary (I457)
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| 71366 | Mary Ann Donalds and Charles Southall were married. | Family F5895
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| 71367 | Mary Ann Walden died of Typhoid Fever. | Walden, Mary Ann (I8403)
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| 71368 | Mary Billington was granddaughter of John Billington, a "Mayflower" passenger. | Billington, Mary (I5783)
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| 71369 | Mary Billington was granddaughter of John Billington, a "Mayflower" passenger. | Billington, Mary (I5783)
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| 71370 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | d'Erlanger, M.".C. (I14329)
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| 71371 | Mary Chase died young. | Chase, Mary (I6215)
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| 71372 | Mary Chase died young. | Chase, Mary (I6215)
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| 71373 | Mary Churchill, mother maiden name Hozier, was born. | Churchill, Lady Mary (I14307)
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| 71374 | Mary Cookson was born on 10 May 1916. She is the daughter of Kenneth Cookson and Vivienne Tilla Butler. She married, firstly, Major John George Spencer-Churchill, son of Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill and Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie, on 20 May 1941. She and Major John George Spencer-Churchill were divorced in 1953. She married, secondly, Jacob Herman Huizinga, son of Professor Dr. Johan Huizinga, on 25 March 1954. | Cookson, Mary (I14423)
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| 71375 | Mary Elizabeth Hall was born at Sandwich Islands, the islands which we know today as the Hawaiian Islands. | Hall, Mary Elizabeth (I2262)
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| 71376 | MARY FRANCES Dau of Albert & Frances HALL Died 17 Sep 1863 AE 5 yr. & 8 months | Hall, Mary Frances (I8113)
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| 71377 | Mary Frances (Millard) Hall was born Sept 20, 1889, San Francisco, CA and died June 30, 1974. She died at the family home 1407 Noe Street. She was the daughter of Jerome Millard and Dr. Caroline Amelia Hollister. Her father was a Chinese Interpreter in San Francisco for 35 years. He came to California about 1852 primarily mining for gold. Later he worked with the Chinese building the railroad (1860) where he became proficient translating Chinese. Her mother Dr. Caroline Amelia Hollister practiced medicine in San Francisco, often assisting the local Chinese residents. Mary Frances Millard had 2 brothers & 3 sisters; Oliver Jerome Millard, Sylvester "Mike" Millard, Ellen Langenbach, Diadema Bearwald & Caroline Benham. She had 7 children, 5 living to adulthood, all born & raised in San Francisco. | Millard, Mary Frances (I18126)
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| 71378 | Mary G. Gilmore RINDGE '97 Mary G. (Freeman) Gilmore, 98, resident of Rindge, N.H., passed away Tuesday, November, 29 2016, at her home surrounded by her family. Mary was born on November 11, 1918, in New York, New York to James and Beatrice (Kent) Freeman. She grew up in Harvard, Mass., and Exeter, N.H. Mary married Lewis D Gilmore Jr., July 15, 1941. She graduated from Robinson Female Seminary and the University of New Hampshire class of 1940. She obtained her Master's degree from Fitchburg State College. She spent most her teaching and administrative career at Murdock High School in Winchendon, Mass. SERVICES: Calling hours will be held on Friday, December 2, 2016, from 7-9 p.m., in the Cournoyer Funeral Home, 33 River Street, Jaffrey, N.H. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 3, 2016, at 10 a.m., in the Funeral Home Chapel, committal prayers will follow in the Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. For more information please visit our website www.cournoyerfh.com. | Freeman, Mary G. (I12302)
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| 71379 | Mary Gay died young. | Gay, Mary (I4427)
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| 71380 | Mary Gay died young. | Gay, Mary (I4427)
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| 71381 | Mary Hall was Daniel Bishop's second wife. | Family F6050
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| 71382 | Mary Hamblin, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary, was born 7 April 1700. It is not proven that the third spouse of John Rising was this Mary Hamblin. | Hamblin, Mary (I2508)
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| 71383 | Mary Higgins Dinsmoor was born in 1923 in Melrose, Massachusetts to Clark Freeman Higgins and Margaret Johnston Davidson Higgins. In her growing up years, her time was divided between Beaver, Pennsylvania and Santa Monica, California. She attended Stuart Hall in Virginia, and then graduated from Stanford University in Drama. She became a protégée of Maude Adams, the first Peter Pan. Mary was an actress off Broadway. She spent a summer at Barter Theater in Virginia where she worked with Ernest Borgnine. She was asked by David Selznick to come to California for a screen test, but decided instead to get married. She married William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. After his graduation in architecture from Columbia, they moved west, settling in El Paso in 1952. She loved to perform and told stories to children at schools and libraries around El Paso up until December, 2007. For many years, she was "Trip the Clown", going to hospitals and charity events. She was a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where she served in many capacities, but her favorite was in directing plays. She served a mission for the Church in the London, England Temple. Her children are so blessed to have had such a wonderful mother. Staying on this side to carry on are her four children, Margaret (Kent) Loveless, Diane (Danny) Morgan, William Bell (Liz) Dinsmoor III, and Robert (Sally) Dinsmoor. She also leaves numerous adored grandchildren. She will be greatly missed. Funeral services, which are being arranged by Hillcrest Funeral Home-West, will be at the LDS Church on Rosemont. Viewing will be from 9 to 10, and the Service will be at 10:30. Her body's, but not her spirit's, final resting place will be at Memory Gardens of the Valley. | Higgins, Mary (I11531)
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| 71384 | Mary Jane Barrows had no children by either one of her two marriages. | Barrows, Mary Jane (I3398)
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| 71385 | Mary Leverin, daughter of Kimball Loverin & Mary (Noyes)Loverin, was born in Croydon, NH., 21 May 1815. She married Paul Jacobs 2nd, son of Luther Jacobs & Margaret (Cochran) Jacobs, 28 Feb 1837, in Croydon, NH. They had a large family. Mary died 1 Sept 1887, in Croydon, and is buried in Four Corners Cemetery. | Loverin, Mary "Polly" (I2183)
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| 71386 | Mary M. Wilcox was of Newport, NH. | Wilcox, Mary M. (I2404)
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| 71387 | Mary married Thomas PRENCE son of Thomas PRENCE & Elizabeth TOLDERBY, governor of Plymouth Colony as his 4th wife. married before 1 Aug. 1668 and probably before 9 Feb. 1667/8- [Source 3 Yarmouth Record,p. 328 and 6 MF :230 and Swift-"Old Yarmouth.' | Family F3017
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| 71388 | Mary never married. | Brainard, Mary (I344)
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| 71389 | Mary never married. | Brainard, Mary (I344)
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| 71390 | Mary Ockington never married. | Ockington, Mary (I5849)
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| 71391 | Mary Ockington never married. | Ockington, Mary (I5849)
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| 71392 | Mary Patricia McNulty, 97, died Dec. 22, 2000, at Eventide Home in Exeter NH. She was born Dec. 14, 1903, in Exeter, the daughter of the late Patrick J. and Mary Ellen (Hughes) Hannigan. She lived most of her life in Exeter. She was the valedictorian of the class of 1921 at Robinson Female Seminary and attended Lowell Normal School, now the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, graduating in 1924. Mrs. McNulty began her teaching career in Pelham MA and later taught in Haverhill MA and Malden MA. She taught in Exeter from 1933 until 1936 and from 1943 until her retirement in 1969. She was an active member of the New Hampshire Retired Teachers Association; the Exeter Historical Society; the Exeter Women's Club; a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star; and a member of the Rockingham County Choral Society. She was a member of Christ Church Episcopal in Exeter, where she sang in the choir. She is survived by her son, Norman R. Carpenter of Minneapolis MN; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sisters Frances H. Savage of Melrose MA and Margaret H. O'Connor of Vienna VA. She was predeceased by her first husband Norman R. Carpenter, who died in 1931; her second husband J. William McNulty, who died in 1970; and her sister Katherine H. Cavanaugh. | Hannigan, Mary Patricia (I12283)
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| 71393 | Mary R. Hall Mary R. Hall, 68, of 343 Tuttle St., a former sewing machine operator, died Saturday at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. She was the wife of Robert F. Hall. Born in Fall River, she was a daughter of the late Michael and Mary (Bouchard) Mullaney. Mrs. Hall worked for the C. and S. Sportswear for many years before retiring in 1975. She was a communicant of St. Patrick's Church. She was a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Besides her husband she leaves a daughter, Kathleen Roy of Bridgewater; four sons, Robert F. Hall of Plainville, David B. Hall of Swansea, Michael B. Hall of Granby and Kris O. Hall of Fall River; three brothers, Thomas Mullaney of Pomona, Calif., Michael Mullaney of Fall River and John Mullaney of Somerset; three sisters, Kathleen Peterson, Jean Phillippi, Claire Goulet, all of Fall River, and 10 grandchildren. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 8 a.m. from the Jeffrey E. Sullivan Funeral Home, 550 Locust St., with a funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church, South Main Street, at 9. Entombment will be in Notre Dame Mausoleum. | Mullaney, Mary Rita (I19421)
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| 71394 | Mary Richardson and her husband, Elkanah Walker, went to Oregon as missionaries with Marcus Whitman in 1838. __________ From FindaGrave: As a young girl in Maine, Mary Richardson set her mind to become a missionary. Upon marrying Elkanah Walker in 1837, the couple set out for the Oregon Country. They settled among the Spokane Indians to teach and preach at their mission, Tshimakain, located 25 miles northwest of present day Spokane. Mary's intimate 125,000-word diary tells of crossing the continent with fur traders, building a rustic shelter in the wilderness, ministering to the Indians, and raising a family under trying conditions. Her words reveal her frustrations, spirit, honesty, and perseverance. She is a symbol of the strength of all pioneer women. Following the murder of the Dr. Marcus Whitman party, near Walla Walla, Mary and her family moved themselves to the peaceful Willamette Valley where they spent the rest of their lives. The work of missionaries paved the way for the next wave of pioneers to cross the Rockies to Oregon. Choosing the Life of a Missionary Mary Richardson was born in Maine in 1811. Around this time America was swept up in the Great Awakening that prompted the faithful to strike out around the world in missionary zeal. Mary, the second of 11 children, attended Maine Wesleyan in the early 1830s. Her course of study included history, natural philosophy, chemistry, natural history, botany, mental philosophy, mathematics, French, and Spanish. Mary taught school in Maine, yet she had always been interested in missions. The life of a missionary was the most exciting career open to women at this period. "At the age of 9 or 10 my mind first became interested in the cause of missions, and I determined if it ever were in my power I would become a missionary. This determination I never forgot" (Mary Richardson Walker Diary, December 5,1836). Mary hoped to be sent to Africa but the Zulu wars were breaking out and the American Board of Missions was reluctant to send a single woman missionary anywhere, let alone to a war zone. The Board also knew of a single male desiring a missionary assignment. The Board wanted to send out missionaries as husband and wife teams, so they played cupid and sent Elkanah Walker of Bangor to meet Mary Richardson. Mary recorded her initial impression, "I saw nothing particularly interesting or disagreeable in the man. He is a tall and rather awkward gentleman" (Diary, April 22, 1837). Elkanah proposed marriage within 48 hours of their meeting and she accepted. In 1836, William H. Gray had gone west with Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, Reverend Henry Spalding, and his wife Eliza. The Whitmans worked among the Cayuse and the Spauldings with the Nez Perce at Lapwai. In 1837 Gray returned east to get married and ask for more missionaries for the remote Pacific Northwest. The American Board of Missions responded. In the words of Rev. W. J. Armstrong, "A white population may be expected to gather pretty rapidly on the Columbia River and in a few years, if the Gospel is not now given to the poor Indians, the vices and diseases of the whites may spread among them and sweep them away." The Board sent the Walkers along with three other couples, all newlyweds, to the land beyond the Rockies to spread the Gospel and save the Indians. The Journey West The extraordinary honeymoon journey began early in 1838. The Walker newlyweds left Maine for Boston with a horse and buggy. This was followed by a coastal steamer trip to New York. First a stagecoach, then a train, at 10 mph, brought them to Pittsburgh. Here they picked up the steamboat Norfolk to St. Louis. It seems all means of transport available in the 1830s were part of the adventure that was only beginning. At Independence, Missouri they met up with their companions for the overland trip to Oregon, nearly 2,000 miles across the wilds. In addition to Mary and Elkanah Walker, the party now included three other newly married missionary couples: Cushing Eells and his wife Myra, Asa Smith and his wife Sarah, W. H. Gray and his wife, plus three single men. Each couple was limited to 140 pounds of provisions, including a tent. Each person was permitted to pack a two-foot-long valise with their personal effects. On March 13, the missionaries received a passport to Oregon from the U.S. War Department "to pass through the Indian country to the Columbia River" (Drury, 68). Mary rode horseback the entire way on her tiny sidesaddle, feeling the effects of pregnancy all along the way. Descriptions of the West in the 1830s were based upon rumors, exaggerations, and speculation with very few facts to get in the way. Washington Irving's narrative Astoria states, "While passing through the great defile you are supposed to be at 10,000 feet while you look up to either hand to snow capped peaks rising 8,000 to 10,000 feet above you ... surpassing all other mountains on the globe except the highest peaks of the Himalaya." Deserts, impassable mountains, unfordable rivers, wild beasts, and unfriendly Indians were part of the commonly held picture. Yet, west the newlyweds headed full of determination and faith. The missionaries attached themselves to a party of fur traders. These agents of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company agreed to act as guides through the Rockies. This was a most valuable service in the unmapped and almost unknown frontier. It would be hard to find a less congenial group of people than this group of missionaries. Every one of the newly married missionaries was brimming with good intentions, but they bickered about anything and everything. Two couples shared a 9- x 12-foot tent. It seems each could find something that bothered them about the others. Mary noted "There is scarcely one who is not intolerable on some account" (Diary, April 23, 1838). They were all strong-minded determined people. Mary found out very soon that her husband was subject to moods of melancholy and bad temper. She wrote in her journal on April 11 that she wished he wouldn't embarrass her by his continual watchfulness. She felt he was critical of everything she did. She wrote, "Should feel much better if Mr. W. would only treat me with some cordiality. It is so hard to please him I almost despair of every being able to" (Diary, April 24, 1838). The next day these words: "Rode twenty-one miles without alighting. Had a long bawl. Husband spoke so cross I could scarcely bear it" (Diary, April 25, 1838) On June 6th Mary was in ill health. In keeping with the medical practices of the day, she was bled. "Find it difficult to keep up a cheerful flow of spirits. Think the bleeding did me good though it reduced my strength more than I expected" (Diary, June 5, 1838). Later on she had a tooth pulled. All this time she was pregnant with her first child. On August 29, 1838, after six months on the trail, the party arrived at Dr. Marcus Whitman's mission, Waiilatpu, near Fort Walla Walla. A book about Mary Richardson Walker written in 1945 by Ruth Karr McKee was subtitled The Third White Woman To Cross The Rockies. Conditions were crowded at the small mission and there were tensions among all parties. The Cayuse Indians were very curious, constantly peering through the windows. Mary wrote "I will teach them better manners as soon as I can acquire language enough" (Diary, August 29, 1838). Mary gave birth to her first child while at Waiilatpu, a son she named Cyrus. He was the first boy born to an American couple in the Oregon Territory. Life at Tshimakain Elkanah Walker and Cushing Eells scouted north of Waiilatpu and found a place for their own mission among the Spokane Indians. The site, which they called Tshimakain, was located 25 miles northwest of present-day Spokane. The present-day community of Ford, Washington, is near the site of their mission. In a letter to the American Board, dated October 15, 1838, Elkanah spoke of the nature of the task ahead in working with the Indians. "They must be settled before they can be much enlightened. While they retain the habit of roving they are but a part of the year under religious instruction of any kind. Their children cannot be gathered into schools and instructed. It is necessary that they should be settled and made cultivators of the soil as speedily as possible to save them from extinction" (Drury, 116). Easier said than done. The Walkers lived nine years in this remote outpost. Mary raised six children during these years in a 14-square-foot log cabin with walls chinked with mud. The dirt floor was strewn with pine needles. The roof of poles, grass, and dirt leaked mud during rainstorms. Cloth served as windows until glass arrived many months later. One day the wall fell in: "This morning part of the wall of our house fell. Husband was in the room in bed when it began to fall. He escaped without being hurt much. Son's little chair was broken to pieces. The chimney fell with the wall and just as it fell, it began to rain" (Diary, March 4, 1840). A year later, Mary seemed resigned to her situation. "Cleaning and setting in order our little hut. Hope the day may come when we shall have a better house though I could be contented to live as we now do all my life long" (Diary, March 13, 1841). As a young woman she was a serious student of science. By 1847, her diary revealed that she had mastered taxidermy. She collected and stuffed birds, snakes, and other animals despite her husband's lack of enthusiasm or support. She once wryly commented that her husband had decided to give his permission for her to resume her taxidermy. She held her tongue and proceeded to do what she had planned to do anyway. The Spokane Indians spoke their own language, which was not a written language. The Walkers had difficulty communicating with them, let alone preaching to them or teaching them. Elkanah tried to piece together an alphabet to teach the Indians to read and even attempted to translate the Gospels using the makeshift alphabet. He struggled to translate the first 10 chapters of the book of Mark. In nine years not one Spokane converted to Christianity. The experience was heartbreaking for the Walkers. Yet the missionaries of the Northwest succeeded in another respect. In 1843 the first great emigration to Oregon took place as a thousand folks headed west. In the words of historian Emerson Hough: "The cowards never started, the weak died along the way. That was how the great Northwest was born." The missionaries had shown the way. They were already in Oregon to greet and aid the newcomers. The resulting increase in the American population assured that, in time, the land south of the 49th parallel would become part of the United States. On November 29, 1847, a group of Cayuse Indians attacked the Whitman mission and killed 13 occupants, including Marcus and Narcissa Whitman (one man escaped but apparently drowned later). An Indian guide rode to the Tshimakain mission with the news. Those at the trading post at Fort Colville urged the Walkers and the Eells to remove themselves and go to the fort for protection. Leaving Tshimakain Though the Spokane Indians had always been friendly, the Walkers followed the advice from Fort Colville and left Eastern Washington for the Willamette Valley in Oregon. There Elkanah bought a 100-acre land claim from a man who planned to set out for the California gold fields. Elkanah took up farming and preached in the Congregational Church at Forest Grove, Oregon. Here Mary had her seventh and eighth children. The Walkers also adopted a child and took in boarders. The Walkers donated some of their land to help in the establishment of Pacific University at Forest Grove. In 1871 the Walkers returned to Maine for a visit, this time by train. They attended the graduation of their son, Elkanah, from Bangor Theological Seminary. The new graduate then set off to become a missionary in China. Other descendents of the Walker's were to become missionaries and one became a professor of Biology at the University of Nebraska. The Walkers moved to Forest Grove, Oregon in October, 1849. On November 21, 1877, Mary Richardson Walker died at Forest Grove. | Richardson, Mary (I6164)
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| 71395 | Mary Richardson and her husband, Elkanah Walker, went to Oregon as missionaries with Marcus Whitman in 1838. | Richardson, Mary (I6164)
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| 71396 | Mary S Churchill and Arthur C J Soames were married. | Family F6783
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| 71397 | Mary Stacy, the eldest of three daughters of Joseph Pierce (alias Pearce) (1780-1849) and Anna Knapp (1770-1842) was born in 1793 at New Gloucester, Maine. Mary Stacy Pearce (as listed on the marriage record) married Thomas Richardson, the son of John and Bethiah Herrick Richardson on 24 March 1816 at New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine. They had nine children born at Maine: 1. Elizabeth N. Richardson (b. 1816; d. 1891), 2. Bethiah Harriet Richardson (b. 1817; d. 15 Apr 1868, Groton Junction, MA), m. 31 May 1857 at Concord, MA, William Hunt Wheeler (1808-1873) 3. Sophronia Richardson (b. 1820; d. 1894), m. Reuben Lowell Smith (1820-1890) 4. Charles T. Richardson (b. 30 Dec 1822; d. 24 Nov 1905, Laconia, NH), m. Louisa D. Hubbard (1823-1910) 5. Joseph H. Richardson (b. 1824), 6. George W. Richardson (b. 1826), m. 29 Mar 1854 at Charlestown, MA, Louisa Holman (1832-) 7. Maryette Richardson (b. 1828), 8. Huldah Jane Richardson (b. 1831), 9. Oliver Bartlett Richardson (b. 1834; d. 1902), m. 6 Feb 1856 at Hebron, ME, Sarah Prince Whittemore (1835-1868) In 1850, Mary, 57 years of age, husband Thomas, 60 years of age, occupation Laborer, and their youngest son, Oliver (16 years) were living at Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine. The 1860 census shows that Mary S. Richardson, 67 years of age, was residing with her daughter Bethiah H. Wheeler (42 years), her husband, William H. Wheeler (43 years), occupation Painter, and their son Willie H. (2 years) at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. | Pierce, Mary Stacy (I20625)
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| 71398 | Mary V. (Ames) LaPorte Hall, 76, of Uxbridge Wednesday, April 28, 2004 UXBRIDGE -- Mary V. (Ames) LaPorte Hall, 76, of Uxbridge, died Tuesday, April 27, 2004, in Lanessa Healthcare, Webster. She was the wife of Raymond C. Hall Jr., who died in 1995. Her first husband, Francis W. LaPorte, died in 1973. Mrs. Hall was born in Boston, the daughter of the late Samuel H. and Maude E. (Day) Ames and attended Worcester public schools. She was a longtime resident of Uxbridge. Mrs. Hall was employed for several years as a nurse's aide at the Geriatric Authority of Milford. Later, she was a home health aide for the Visiting Nurse Association of the Greater Milford-Northbridge Area and retired in 1994. Mrs. Hall leaves three sons, Bruce P. LaPorte of Uxbridge, David J. LaPorte of Millbury and Mark S. LaPorte of Worcester; one daughter, Linda A. Daniels of Medway; six grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and several nieces and nephews. She was also the sister of the late Eleanor Warren, Delma Wilbur, Dale Ames and Arthur Ames. The funeral service will take place Thursday, April 29, at 1 p.m., in the chapel of the Buma Funeral Home, 101 North Main St., Rte. 122, Uxbridge. Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery, Granite Street. Calling hours are Thursday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., prior to the service. | Ames, Mary Virginia (I792)
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| 71399 | Mary was buried on the 60 acre parcel adjoining the family homestead on Main Street. No buildings or markers remain. | Smith, Mary (I18486)
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| 71400 | Mary was interred in Groton Cemetery where her parents are also buried. Her son, Prescott, was interred originally in Mt. Auburn Cemetery with his father but was removed to the Groton Cemetery at a later time. | Farnsworth, Mary Elizabeth (I2268)
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