Hazel Annabel / Audrie Mosher (it seems Hazel wasn’t too fond of her middle name Annabel) was born in 1898 at St. Martins, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. She is the daughter of William Mosher and Elizabeth McLaren.[1][2]
Hazel, age 22, married 10 Mar 1920, at the Methodist Parsonage, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Wilmot Leigh Watters, age 28, son of Eli Sharp Watters and Mary Jane Green, of Good Corner, Carleton County, New Brunswick.[3][4] Wilmot, born 5 Jun 1892 at Good Corner, died of heart disease, complicated by nephritis, on 29 Oct 1920 at Good Corner. He was buried in the family plot at Williamstown Cemetery, Bradley Corner, Carleton County, New Brunswick.[5][6]
Hazel and Wilmot had a son, Lee Bertrand Watters, born 8 Sep 1920 at Good Corner, Carleton, New Brunswick.[7] After his father died, Lee was brought up by his four Watters uncles. He served in the Second World War as a paratrooper. Lee married in 1949 at the age of 28, at the United Baptist Parsonage in Centreville, Carlton County, New Brunswick, Dorothy Irthing Bushby, age 19.[8][9]
Child of Hazel Mosher and Wilmot Leigh Watters
Lee Bertrand Watters, b. 8 Sep 1920, Good Corner, Carleton, New Brunswick; d. 1997; m. 12 Feb 1949, Centreville, Carlton County, New Brunswick, Dorothy Irthing Bushby d. 1980
Hazel married second, Arthur Beadle. In 1930, Hazel and Arthur are living with two young sons, Russell and Allen, at Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[10]
On the 1940 U.S. census, Hazel is living in Arlington, Massachusetts, with her husband, Arthur, two sons, and a daughter.[11]
Children of Hazel (Mosher) Watters and Arthur Leslie Beadle
Russell Allen Beadle, b. 1928, Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts; buried 1968, Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Allen Ronald Beadle, b. 19 Aug 1929, Massachusetts; d. 22 Oct 2008, Tucson, Pima, Arizona
Phyllis Eleanor Beadle, b. 2 Dec 1932, Massachusetts; d. 7 Feb 2012, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina; m. ______ Melvin
Arthur Leslie Beadle died 12 March 1950 at Allston, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.[12] He is buried in the Beadle family plot in Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Hazel passed away in March 1974 at Somerville, Somerville, Lincoln, Massachusetts. She too is buried in the Beadle family plot in Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[13]
↑ "Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTSR-SLQ : Sun Mar 10 22:54:58 UTC 2024), Entry for Hazel Annabel Mosher and William Francis Mosher, 03 Apr 1898.
↑ "Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-RM9R : Sun Mar 10 07:21:24 UTC 2024), Entry for Wilmot Leigh Walters and Eli S Walters, 10 Mar 1920.
↑ "Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBN-V3YT : Sun Mar 10 13:40:22 UTC 2024), Entry for Lee Bertram Watters and Wilmot Lee Watters, 12 Feb 1949.
↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPBW-4BC7 : Sat Mar 09 18:21:38 UTC 2024), Entry for Arthur L and Beadle, 13 March 1950.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/255752778/hazel_a-beadle: accessed April 2, 2024), memorial page for Hazel A Beadle (1898–1974), Find a Grave Memorial ID 255752778, citing Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by oclark (contributor 50029744).
"Massachusetts, United States Naturalization Records, 1790-1991", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH1-Y4PG : Sat Mar 09 01:05:51 UTC 2024), Entry for Hazel Annabel Beadle and Arthur, 1931.
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