Chiquita (Field) Purvis (1897 - 1966)

Born 27 May 1897 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Died 30 Mar 1966 at age 68 in Mechanicville, Saratoga, New York, United States

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Biography

Chiquita was born in 1897. George Field and Annie Mahan had a female child on 27 May 1897 in Chelsea, Massachusetts^[1] but no first name is given on the record.

In the censuses of 1900^[2] and 1910^[3], Chiquita is living with her parents and siblings.

Chiquita (Keta) Field married Thomas (Al) Purvis. She died on 30 Mar 1966 at age 67^[4].

Obituary

Mrs. Thomas Purvis

RANDOLPH -- Mrs. Chiquita (Field) Purvis, 67, of 15 Ely St., died yesterday in Mechanicsville, where she was visiting friends.

Born in Chelsea, shea had been a Randolph resident 35 years.

Prior to retirement she had been employed by F W Woolworth Co. She was a member of the Tremont Temple Baptist Church, Boston.

Wife of the late Thomas Purvis, she is survived by two brothers, George A. Field and Chester A. Field, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Kelley and Miss Sadie Field, all of Randolph.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXX2-V6V : 1 March 2016), Field, 27 May 1897, Chelsea, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #p 385 rn 283, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,843,700.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9T2-HHB : accessed 1 January 2022), Chiguita Field in household of George A Field, Wakefield town (northeast part), Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 969, sheet 6B, family 122, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,667.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M229-DMB : accessed 1 January 2022), Chiquita Field in household of George A Field, Boston Ward 18, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1536, sheet 9B, family 175, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 621; FHL microfilm 1,374,634.
4. ↑ https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:13D0955A0C88E671@GB3NEWS-1698586B48CA825A@2439217-16981A384DAF548B@3-16981A384DAF548B