Alice Leone (Leach) Coolidge (abt. 1877 - 1944)

Born about 29 May 1877 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel W. Coolidge — married before 1910 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Died 1944 at about age 66 in Livermore Falls, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Biography

Birth

According to her obituary, Alice Leone Leach was born at Livermore, Maine, on 29 May 1877, the daughter of Calvin R. Leach and Abbie (Goding) Leach of Livermore.^[1] She was living with her parents at Livermore and working as a teacher in 1900, with her birth date shown as May 1877.^[2] See the Research Note below for a discussion of her birth date.

Marriage

Alice L. Leach married Samuel W. Coolidge.^[3]

Death

An undated obituary from "the Lewiston paper" transcribed on the FindAGrave memorial of Alice (Leach) Coolidge says that she died at Livermore, Falls, Maine, and her gravestone at the Waters Hill Cemetery is inscribed with the dates 1877-1944.^[1]

Research Note

The 1906 Goding genealogy gives the birth date of Alice Leone Goding as 29 May 1876,^[4] which conflicts with her birth date from her obituary and from the 1900 Census (both cited above) and from the 1880 Census, which says she was 3 years old in June 1880.^[5] The genealogy says that Alice's mother, Abbie (Goding) Leach, was the source of "all of the information relating to this branch," and she presumably knew when her daughter had been born, but given the other evidence it is likely that that the author of the genealogy reported erred in reporting the date and that Alice was born on 29 May 1877. (Research Note by WikiTree contributor Stu Bloom, 2 Jan 2021)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #44930642 for Alice Leona (Leach) Coolidge, with photo of grave marker of Alice Leach Coolidge, portrait of a young woman, and undated obituary
2. ↑ Alice L. Leach, 23, teacher, in the Calvin R. Leach household, family #6, in United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > ED 29 Livermore town > image 1 of 23; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 85
4. ↑ F. W. Goding, Genealogy of the Goding family (Richmond, Ind., 1906), page 78
5. ↑ Alice Leach, in the Hartson B. Leach household, family #266, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Livermore > ED 17 > image 24 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)