Mary Elizabeth (Dodd) Earle (1816 - 1894)

Born 16 Feb 1816 in Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Morris Earle — married 26 Oct 1835 in Hartford, Connecticut

Died 14 Aug 1894 at age 78 in Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Born in 1816, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, Mary Elizabeth Dodd was the daughter of James and Cornelia (Bull) Dodd. She was 19 years old when she married Morris Earle, 10 years her senior, in 1835. Morris was a Hartford businessman but soon after their marriage they moved to New York City. During the years when Morris and Mary had their children they would winter in New York City and summer in Hartford where Mary's roots were deep. She was a descendant of the Bull family and the Steele family as well as the Dodds, all of whom were among the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut.

Mary and Morris would have the following children:

Morris Dodd Earle (1837–1897)

James H. Earle (1839–1912)

William Charles Earle (1842–1907)

Mary (Earle) Jardine (1845–1873)

Cornelia D. Earle (1849–1920)

Ellen Fanny (Earle) Flagg (1852–1920)

Charles Dodd Earle (1859–1940)

Morris passed away 7 months before the birth of their last child, Charles. With several small children to care for, Mary kept a home in New York but continued to summer in Hartford where many in her family lived.

She died at the home of her brother, Mr. Charles B. Dodd, No. 90 Washington Street in Hartford, on August 14, 1894. She was 78 years old and is buried next to Morris in the Zion Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Sources

• "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7GH-HM4 : 11 January 2020), Mary E. Dodd in entry for Morris Earl, 1835.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5P6-K5Q : 4 April 2020), Mary Earle in household of Morris Earle, New York City, ward 18, New York, New York, United States; citing family 1485, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K67X-VMB : 13 March 2018), Mary Earle in household of Morris Earle, E.D. 1, Ward 18, New York City, New York, New York, United States; citing p. , line #13, family #668, county clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 1,018,662.

• "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7ZV-P4M : 11 June 2020), Mary E. Earle, 1894.

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