Lilla M. (Leavitt) Nason (1874 - 1964)

Born 1874 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Henry L. Nason — married 6 Jan 1897 in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

Died 10 Jan 1964 at about age 90 in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Lilla M. Leavitt was the daughter of Milton Leavitt and Samantha Jane (Nash) Leavitt, with whom she was living (as Lillie M. Leavitt) at Livermore, Maine, in 1880 at the age of five.^[1] The 1900 Census gives her birth date as October 1874.^[2] Her death record says she was born on 15 Oct 1874.^[3]

Marriage

Lilla M. Leavitt, 22, and Henry L. Nason, shoemaker, 26, both of Auburn, Maine published at Auburn their intention to marry on 1 Jan 1897, and they married there on 6 Jan 1897.^[4] In 1900, they were living at Auburn, married for three years with no children.^[2]

Death

In 1940, Lilla M. Nason was living at the age of 65 as a widow at Auburn, Maine, and working as a fancy stitcher in a show factory.^[5] Lilla M. Nason died at Auburn, Maine, at the age of 89 on 10 Jan 1964,^[6] with her birth date shown as 15 Oct 1874.^[3] A gravestone in the plot of her parents at the Lakeside Cemetery in Livermore, Maine, is inscribed with the dates 1874-1964.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Lillie M. Leavitt in the Milton Leavitt household, family #193, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Livermore > ED 17 > image 17 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Henry L. Nason household, family #113, in "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > ED 3 Auburn city Ward 2 > image 11 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} FamilySearch transcription of the death record of Lilla Nason, in United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch > Lilla Nason, Jan 1964; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
4. ↑ Marriage record of Henry L. Nason and Lilla M. Leavitt, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records 1892-1907 > Nason, 1896-Newman, 1895 > image 83 of 3998; multiple sources, Maine. The parents of the couple appear on the back of the marriage record card, at image 82
5. ↑ Lilla M. Nason household, household #442, in United States Census, 1940, database with images > FamilySearch > Maine > Androscoggin > Auburn City, Auburn, Ward 2 > 1-5 Auburn City Ward 2 bounded by (N) Dennison; (E) Turner St; (S) Maine Central Railroad; (W) Hampshire, Goff > image 34 of 36; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.
6. ↑ Family Search transcription of the death record of Lilla M. Nason, in Maine Death Index, 1960-1996, database, FamilySearch > Lilla M Nason, 10 Jan 1964; citing Death, Auburn, city code 01010, certificate 6400009, Maine State Archives, Augusta.
7. ↑ Transcription made in 2003 of the inscription on the gravestone of Lilla (Leavitt) Nason, in Maine, Tombstone Inscriptions, Surname Index, 1620-2014, database, FamilySearch > Murray, Herman - Nason, Lyman, 1620-2014 > image 495 of 500; Maine State Library, Augusta.