Polly A. (Sawin) Bates (1797 - 1856)

Born 7 May 1797 in Livermore, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Cyrus Bates — married 3 Mar 1822 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Died 11 May 1856 at age 59 in Sumner, Oxford, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Polly Sawin was born at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) on 7 May 1797, the daughter of Abijah Sawin and Prudence (Adams) Sawin.^[1]

Her name appears in her birth record and consistently in other records as Polly, but in the death record of her son Cyrus W. Bates it is given as Mary. The middle initial A appears in that record ^[2] and in her cemetery record,^[3] but it is not found elsewhere.

Marriage

Polly Sawin was a resident of Sumner, Maine, when she married Cyrus Bates, also of Sumner, at Livermore, Maine, on 23 Mar 1823.^[4] The 1892 death record of Cyrus W. Bates names his parents as Cyrus Bates and Mary A. Sawin and says that his mother was born at Livermore.^[2]

Death

A record in the Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection says that Polly A. Bates died on 11 May 1856 at the age of 60 years, 4 days (which differs from her birth record by exactly one year) and is buried at West Paris, Maine.^[3] She probably died at Sumner, where she was living in 1850.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 52; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 56 of 718
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Death record of Cyrus W. Bates, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records 1892-1907 > Bartley-Bean, 1905 > image 1278 of 4007; multiple sources, Maine.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Cemetery record of Cryus and Polly A. Bates, in Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, database with images, FamilySearch > Bartlett, Joseph J-Beale, Laura C > image 989 of 1575; Maine State Library, Augusta.
4. ↑ Marriage record of Cyrus Bates and Polly Sawin, both of Sumner, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > unpaginated > Marriages and marriage intentions, 1811-1842 > image 351 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
5. ↑ Polly Bates in the Cyrus Bates household, family #165, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch Maine > Oxford > Sumner > image 22 of 28; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).