Mary Olive (Lorman) Whitten (abt. 1863 - 1952)

Born about 18 Aug 1863 in Tangier, Halifax, Nova Scotia Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Dillingham Whitten Sr. — married 10 Feb 1883 in Lowell, MA

Descendants

Died 14 Jun 1952 at about age 88 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Mary Olive^[1] was born in Tangier, Nova Scotia in 1863. She is still living in Halifax in the 1881 census.^[2][3] She lived most of her life in Lowell, Massachusetts, and at 47 Blossom Street in Fitchburg, Mass.

According to the 1920 census she came to the US in 1880 and naturalized in 1885.

She married Edward Whitten in 1882 or 1883.^[4]

See Edward's page for a more detailed family chronology based on census records.

A newspaper clipping for her 82nd birthday says, "thirty-seven relatives and friends came to congratulate her, including her two brothers, four of her children, and several nieces."

Her obituary says that she died at age 87 at Burbank Hospital in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, after a long illness. She was a member of the Christ Church.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX46-HCT : accessed 3 June 2015), Mary O. in entry for Edward Dillingham Whitten, 28 Aug 1885; citing Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, reference p 212, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,208.
2. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6P-949 : accessed 9 March 2016), Mary Lorman in household of Henry Lorman, Windsor Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 13; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13169, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,805.
3. ↑ The Whitten family bible, which belonged to her, has her being born on August 18. Another source has February 7, but this must be incorrect. The 1930 census also has August 18.
4. ↑ The 1883 date is from an Ancestry.com message board post that mistakenly has May's last name as Gorman.