Martha Evelyn (Stone) Harrington (1851 - 1924)

Born 29 Jan 1851 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 12 May 1924 at age 73 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Martha was born in 1851 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. She was the daughter of Stephen Hayden Stone (b. 1816) and Mary Ann Emerson (b. 1820). She had two brothers, Albert (b. 1845) and Charles (b. 1847).

The 1860 census shows Martha as a child living with her family in Charlestown, Massachusetts. ^[1] By the 1870 census, she was living with her parents in Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts. ^[2] The 1880 census shows the family in the same town, with Martha working as a book-keeper. ^[3]

Her first husband was John Harrington in 1884. ^[4] He died after less than one year of marriage.

Her second husband was George Nelson Stone who was an executive in a telephone company, Cincinnati Bell. He had three daughters from his late first wife. They married in 1888. At the 1900 census, she lived at 405 Oak Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. ^[5] Mr. Stone died the following year, after which she moved to the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.

Mrs Stone surivived the Titanic disaster in April 1912, on which she was travelling first class with her maid Amelie Icard.

Upon her death in 1924, she would bequeath a great sum of assets and personal items to Amelie. She was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, next to her second husband.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZHG-68F : 18 February 2021), Martha M Stone in entry for Stephen H Stone, 1860.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD36-F8Z : 29 May 2021), Mattie Stone in entry for Stephen H Stone, 1870.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6T-GRG : 14 January 2022), Martha M. Stone in household of Stephen H. Stone, Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHD5-PBV : 24 January 2020), John H. Harrington, 1884.
   

   Name: John H. Harrington

   Event Type: Marriage

   Event Date: 15 Oct 1884

   Event Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

   Event Place (Original): Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, :United States

   Gender: Male

   Age: 51

   Birth Year (Estimated): 1833

   Father's Name: Jonathan

   Mother's Name: Lydia Stowers

   Spouse's Name: Martha M. Stone

   Spouse's Gender: Female

   Spouse's Age: 33

   Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1851

   Spouse's Father's Name: Stephen H.

5. ↑ U.S. Census 1900 (Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Enumeration District 12, page 4, line 31)
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #17894315

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