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Mary Fowler (Austin) Evans (1866 - 1957)

Mary Fowler Evans formerly Austin
Born in South Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesmap
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Daughter of and
Sister of , and
Wife of — married 21 Oct 1885 in Middlesex, New Jersey, United Statesmap [uncertain]
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Died at age 90 in Nassau, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United Statesmap
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Biography

Mary Fowler Austin was born in South Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut on August 29, 1866. She was the daughter of Lemuel Augustus Austin and Ellen Ann Post.

In 1870, Mary lived with her parents and siblings in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut and in 1880 the family resided in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.[1][2]

At the age of 19, Mary married John Christopher Evans on October 21, 1885, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, when he was 30 years old.[3][4][5] They had seven children - John Christopher Jr., Marie Austin, Austin, Herbert Vanderbilt, Helen Esther, Gladys, and Dorothy Riva.

In 1895 and 1900, she resided with her husband and children in Milltown, Middlesex, New Jersey.[6] [7] Following her husband's death in 1902, in April 1903 she moved back with her children to New Haven, where she lived in 1910 and 1920.[8][9] In 1930 she was living with her daughter Marie and family in Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut.[10] In the 1940s, she appears in various annual New Haven directories. In 1950, she was living with her widowed daughter Marie Biever in Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut.[11]

Mary reached 90 years of age and died in Bethpage, Nassau, New York, on April 18, 1957.[12][13] She was buried at Van Liew Cemetery in New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey.[14]

Sources

  1. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. Year: 1870; Census Place: Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut; Roll: M593_98; Page: 754A; Family History Library Film: 545597. Image
  2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census. Year: 1880; Census Place: New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; Roll: 106; Page: 278A; Enumeration District: 092. Image
  3. ↑ Nelson, William, The New Jersey Coast in Three Centuries. Vol III, pp. 450-1.
  4. ↑ John C. Evans & Mary Austin - Wedding - New Haven Morning Journal-Courier - Oct 17 1885 - Page 2. Link
  5. ↑ John C. Evans & Mary Austin - Wedding - New Haven Morning Journal-Courier - Oct 22 1885 - Page 3. Link
  6. ↑ Ancestry.com, New Jersey, State Census, 1895 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007), Ancestry.com. Image
  7. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. Year: 1900; Census Place: North Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0035; FHL microfilm: 1240984. Image
  8. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census. Year: 1910; Census Place: New Haven Ward 10, New Haven, Connecticut; Roll: T624_140; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0424; FHL microfilm: 1374153. Image
  9. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census. Year: 1920; Census Place: Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut; Roll: T625_189; Page: 26A; Enumeration District: 263. Image
  10. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. Year: 1930; Census Place: Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut; Page: 27B; Enumeration District: 0143; FHL microfilm: 2340008. Image
  11. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut; Roll: 5636; Page: 22; Enumeration District: 5-105. Ancestry.com
  12. ↑ Mary Austin Evans - Obituary - Farmingdale Post - Apr 24 1957 - Page 15. Link
  13. ↑ New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Death Index Link
  14. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #17313920
  • DAR Lineage - Mary Austin Evans. Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 095 : 1912 Link




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