Nellie (Sweeney) Bow (1858 - 1936)

Born 16 Jul 1858 in Richford, Franklin, Vermont, United States

Died 29 Jan 1936 at age 77 in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

Biography

Nellie was the daughter of Joseph Sweeney and Flavie (Charron) Sweeney of Stoddard, a town adjacent to Nelson. She first married Elmer Pierce of Saranac, New York on October 2, 1875.^[1] Elmer was a painter in Lowell, Massachusetts - a place where Nellie was also residing at the time of their marriage.

Elmer was born about 1854, the son of Curtis and Lydia Pierce. He later died about 1894 at the age of 40 in Lowell, Massachusetts.

She and Elmer had three sons.

Nellie worked in the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts and met Walter Bow, a machinist. They married in Lowell on September 18, 1897.^[2]

By 1920 Nellie was widowed and she and two of her sons had moved to Gardner, Massachusetts where the boys were employed in a chair factory.

Nellie died in Nashua, New Hampshire, after suffering a severe bout of bronchial pneumonia.^[3] Her remains were brought to Munsonville, a village of Nelson, to be buried in the Munsonville Cemetery.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM9-ZH7 : 17 October 2017), Walter Bow and Ellen Sweeney Pierce, 18 Sep 1897; citing Marriage, Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 2,257,275.
3. ↑ New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947
4. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 July 2019), memorial page for Nellie Sweeney Bow (16 Jul 1858–29 Jan 1936), Find A Grave: Memorial #98003703, citing Munsonville Cemetery, Munsonville, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Candyce Fulford (contributor 47429784)

• 1870 United States Federal Census
• 1900 United States Federal Census
• Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915