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Elizabeth Mary (Sadoques) Mason (1897 - 1985)

Elizabeth Mary Mason formerly Sadoques
Born in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 29 Aug 1925 in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United Statesmap
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Died at age 88 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United Statesmap
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Biography

Elizabeth was Abenaki.
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Elizabeth (Sadoques) Mason is Notable.

Elizabeth Mary Sadoques was born in Keene, New Hampshire on May 16, 1897. She was daughter of an Abenaki Indian couple, Israel Sadoques and Mary Watso. [1][2] The 1900 U.S. Census lists the family living in Keene, N.H., all as Indian. [3]

Elizabeth Sadoques married Claude Francis Mason on August 29, 1925 in Marlborough, New Hampshire. [4] In 1930 they were living in Marlborough, N.H. with Claude's parents and daughter Claudia. [5] In 1940 they are still in Marlborough, with an additional child, daughter Mary. [6]

She was one of the first Native American Registered Nurses known in the United States. Not much is known of her career. She finished nursing school in New York in 1919 and worked as a nurse to artist Abbot Handerson Thayer. [2]

She died 24 Sep 1985 in Keene, New Hampshire and is buried in Marlborough, New Hampshire at East Cemetery.[7]

Sources

  1. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL57-443 : 8 April 2020), Elizabeth Sadoques, 16 May 1897; citing Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,039.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wikipedia contributors, "Elizabeth Sadoques Mason," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, link (accessed February 3, 2021).
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3YS-71Q : 14 January 2022), Elizabeth Sadoques in entry for Isril Sadoques, 1900.
  4. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLZZ-4YF : 2 April 2020), Claude Francis Mason and Elizabeth Mary Sadoques, 29 Aug 1925; citing Marlborough, , New Hampshire, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 2,069,766.
  5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7N4-F15 : accessed 20 March 2023), Elizabeth M Mason in household of Merrill Mason, Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 7A, line 27, family 154, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1298; FHL microfilm 2,341,033.
  6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:VTMR-44G : Sat Mar 18 20:13:13 UTC 2023), Entry for Claude F Mason and Elizabeth S Mason, 1940.
  7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 02 February 2021), memorial page for Elizabeth Mary Sadoques Mason (16 May 1897–24 Sep 1985), Find A Grave: Memorial #22382507, citing East Cemetery, Marlborough, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Theresa/Thunderbird584 (contributor 47100429) .




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Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Interesting birth record. Despite recording her parents as both Indian, she is recorded as white.
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J Chicklas
Yes, indeed. Most of the children of Israel and Mary Sadoques (both full Abenaki Indian people) were listed as white on their birth certificates. It's been posited that there could be 2 reasons for this, 1 well meaning and the other not so well meaning. First, the well meaning: it was thought that whatever town employee recorded the births listed them as white in order to help them avoid discrimination and have more legal rights, as this family was known and actually respected by a good deal of the town of Keene, NH where they lived. Not all of the town of course felt kindly towards the family and there are stories of some discrimination from this family that family descendants tell of. (My mother, a daughter of Elizabeth Sadoques Mason, chose to believe this explanation.) The 2nd and less well meaning: the designation as white was an erasure of sorts of their culture. Culture erasure was done all the time. It was a systematic process of assimilating Indians into the white culture. It had only a partial success nation-wide.
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