Lizza Bemis (Moore) Knapp (1850 - abt. 1930)

Born 23 Mar 1850 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Stephen Decatur Knapp — married before 1859 in Maine, United States

Died about 23 Mar 1930 at about age 80 in Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Lizza Bemis Moore was born at Livermore, Maine, on 23 Mar 1850, the daughter of Abner Moore and Eliza (Bemis) Moore and the twin sister of Frank Bemis Moore.^[1]

Marriage

Lizzie B. Moore married [Stephen] Decatur Knapp of Leeds, Maine.^[2] In the 1880 Census, Decatur and Lizzie Knapp were living at Leeds, and their oldest child was shown as 11 years old.^[3]

Death

A gravestone at the Knapp Cemetery in Leeds, Maine, says Lizzie B, Knapp died on 23 Mar 1930 (her 80th birthday).^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth records of Lizza Bemis Moore and Frank Bemis Moore, in the "Record of the family of Abner Moore & Eliza his wife," in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862 > page 70 > Image 246 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
2. ↑ 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), Inoftownofl00monr/page/n345/mode/2up page 172
3. ↑ Decatur Knapp household, family #84, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Leeds > ED 7 > image 8 of 25; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
4. ↑ Photo of gravestone of Stephen D. Knapp and "his wife Lizzie B." (Find A Grave: Memorial #53206881)