Mary Patricia (Avery) LeBar (1798 - 1866)

Born 30 Jun 1798 in New York, United States

Wife of David (LaBarre) LeBar — married before 1830 in Halton, Upper Canada

Died 25 Oct 1866 at age 68 in Trafalgar, Halton, Canada West

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Biography

There has been much uncertainty about the identity of this Mary PP LeBar, but it now looks like she was the child of Eunice Payne and her husband John Avery. When Mary was two years and five months old, her mother eloped, leaving her father for the blacksmith William McCraney and moving to Canada with him. Mary's father responded with the following notice in the local paper:
Mr Croswel Please to put in the public prints that my wife Unes Avery has Eloped from me and Indeed is Supposed to be gone with a man of the Name of William McCrainey Blacksmith & has also taken my Child a female Girl with her this is therefore to give warning to all persons not Credit her on my account for I will not pay any Debts contracted by her given under my hand this 3rd day of November 1800 In the Town of Kortright Delaware County
John Avery
NB The Child's Age is two years and five months.^[1]
The age given on Mary's tombstone, down to the day, aligns perfectly with the age of John Avery's Child a female girl.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ Article transcribed from the pages of the Western Constellation. Original copy found on Kulp/Mott Family Tree on Ancestry. Transcription corrected archaic spellings but preserves original punctuation and capitalization.
2. ↑ Watt, Jane, et al. Trafalgar Township Cemetery No 17, St Jude’s Cemetery, Halton County, Ontario. Halton-Peel Branch, Ontario Geneological Society, 1996. ISBN: 0-7779-0968-5. Page 17-135. #946, David LEBAR, died Jan 20 1874 aged 66 yrs 10 mos 12 das, [Gr 1]; and #945, David LEBAR Jr died Oct 1866, [Gr2]. Also page 17-136, #947, Mary P P died Oct 25 1866 aged 68 yrs 3 mos 26 das, wife of David LEBAR.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 November 2018), memorial page for Mary P. P. Lebar (unknown–25 Oct 1866), Find A Grave: Memorial #113226252, citing St Jude's Cemetery, Oakville, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by Rosemary (contributor 47817420).