Iola May (Johnson) Leavitt (1870 - 1945)

Born 25 Apr 1870 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Carroll Ellis Jr. — married 29 Sep 1892 in Livermore Falls, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Wife of Charles D. Leavitt — married 20 Jan 1912 in Livermore Falls, East Livermore, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Jun 1945 at age 75 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Iola M. Johnson was born at Livermore, Maine, the daughter of Henry W. Johnson (also known as William H. Johnson) and Orintha M. "Maxie" (Packard) Johnson; see the Research Note below. The 1900 Census shows her birth date as April 1870.^[1] Her obituary shows her birth date as 25 Apr 1870.^[2]

Marriages

1. Iola M. Johnson married Charles Carroll Ellis, with whom she was living at Canton, Maine, in 1900, with the Census of that year showing that they had been married for nine years and that she was the mother of three children, all then living with them.^[1] Iola M Johnson married Charles Carroll Ellis at Livermore Falls, Maine on 29 Sep 1892. It was the first marriage for each. Iola gave birth to a daughter, Carol M Ellis, on 3 Jul 1907, four months after the death of her husband. Carol died the following year on 23 Dec 1908.
2. The widow Iola M. (Johnson) Ellis, 41, of Canton, Maine, and Charles D. Leavitt, 41, of Livermore, Maine, married at Livermore Falls, East Livermore, Maine, on 20 Jan 1912.^[3]

Death

Iola died at Dixfield, Maine on 21 Jun 1945.^[2] A FindAGrave memorial with no photo and citing no sources says that Iola M. Ellis died in 1945 and is buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Dixfield, Maine.^[4]

Research Note

The record of the second marriage of Iola (Johnson) (Ellis) Leavitt says that she was born at Livermore, Maine, the daughter of William H. Johnson and Maxie Packard.^[3] She is undoubtedly the same Iola Johnson who was living at Livermore in 1880 at the age of 10 as the daughter of Henry W. Johnson and Orintha M. Johnson.^[5] It was a common practice in the place and time for people to switch their first and middle names, so the Henry W. Johnson of the 1880 Census could well have been the William H. Johnson of Iola's marriage record. That the Orintha Johnson of the Census, 42 years and shown as born in Massachusetts old in 1880, and the Maxie Packard of the marriage record is the same person is shown by the 1850 Census, when Orintha M. Packard, 12, born in Massachusetts, was living in the household of Ephraim Taylor (probably her stepfather) at Livermore.^[6] (Research Note by WikiTree contributor Stu Bloom, 29 Mar 2021)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Carroll C. Ellis household, family #27, in United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Oxford > ED 182 Canton Town > image 3 of 19; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Mrs. Iola E. Leavitt," obituary, Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, Maine), 23 June 1945, p. 2, col. 1; online images, Google (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC&dat=19450623&printsec=frontpage&hl=en : accessed 27 May 2023).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Marriage record of Charles D. Leavitt and Iola M. Ellis, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records, 1908-1922 > Leavitt - Leighton> image 60 of 4095; multiple sources, Maine.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #122000342 for Iola M. Ellis
5. ↑ Iola M. Johnson in the Henry W. Johnson household, family #16, in "United States Census, 1880", database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Livermore > ED 17 > image 2 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
6. ↑ Orintha M. Packard in the Ephraim Taylor household, family #7, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 2 of 43; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQ9-Z5J : 2 March 2021), Chas C Ellis and Lola M Johnson, 29 Sep 1892; citing Livermore Falls, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.