Amanda Ann (Frye) Morton (1835 - 1917)

Born 30 Jul 1835 in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 3 Nov 1917 at age 82 in Andover, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Amanda Ann Morton was born on July 30, 1835, in Bethel, Maine. She was the daughter of William Frye and Lois Twitchell.^[1][2][3]

She married Dr. John A. Morton on July 22, 1880, in Bethel, Maine.^[4][2] They lived in Bethel. It is indicated in the 1900 U. S. census that Amanda did not have any children.^[5]

Amanda died on November 3, 1917, in Bethel.^[6] Her obituary was published in the Lewiston Evening Journal:^[7]

BETHEL, Me., Nov. 5 (Special).—Mrs. Amanda A. Morton, who was one of the old time families of Bethel died suddenly at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sidney Abbott at Andover, Saturday night. Mrs. Morton was the widow of Dr. J. A. Morton, for many years a prominent physician in Bethel who died in 1905.

Mrs. Morton was born in Bethel, July 30th, 1835. Her parents were the late William and Lois Twitchell Frye and her ancestry dated back to Bethel's earliest settlers. She married Dr. J. A. Morton on July 22d, 1880 and always lived in Bethel until three years ago when she went to live with her sister, Mrs. Abbott at Andover. At the death of Dr. Morton's sister, Mrs. Jones, many years ago they took into the home two of her daughters, Grace and Emma. To them both Dr. and Mrs. Morton gave of their affection and the younger now Mrs. A. Van Den Kerckhoven became as a daughter. After the death of her husband Mrs. Morton made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Van Den Kerckhoven from whom she received the tenderest devotion.

Mrs. Morton retained her faculties in a marked degree and only a week before her death entertained her niece and her family. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Sidney Abbott of Andover, a niece, Miss Annie Frye of Bethel, Mrs. Grace Jones Faunce and two sons of Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. A. Van Den Kerckhoven and family of Bethel.

Sources

1. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F442-ZQ6 : 14 January 2020), Amanda Ann Frye, 1835.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Lapham, William Berry. History of Bethel, formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890. Augusta, Me., Press of the Maine farmer, 1891. p. 538
3. ↑ Cunningham: Vol. 2, Page 3
4. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4N7-MB9 : 14 January 2020), Amanda A. Frye in entry for John A. Morton, 1880.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMLP-GBP : accessed 21 September 2021), Amanda A Morton in household of John A Morton, Bethel town Bethel village, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 179, sheet 2A, family 36, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,596.
6. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-K2VQ : 2 March 2021), Amanda Ann Morton, 03 Nov 1917; citing Andover, Oxford, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
7. ↑ Lewiston Evening Journal, 5 Nov 1917, p. 2

• Cunningham, George A. Cunningham's History of the Town of Lunenburg (1977) Vol. 2, Page 3
• Barker, Elizabeth Frye. Frye genealogy; Adrian of Kittery, Me., John of Andover, Mass., Joshua of Virginia, Thomas of Rhode Island. New York, T. A. Wright, printer, 1920. p. 87
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VM-MR3 : 22 December 2020), Amanda A Frye in household of Wm Frye, Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCQ-1N9 : 18 February 2021), Amanda A Frye in entry for Lois Frye, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF3Y-NFB : 19 February 2021), Amanda A Frye in household of John M Morton, Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 117, sheet 26A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,484.