Julia Estelle (Swift) Beers (1868 - 1947)

Born 1868 in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Birth

Julia Estelle Swift was born in 1868, the daughter of A. Russell Swift and Julia (Monroe) Swift,^[1] with whom she was living as Ester Swift at Wayne, Maine, in 1870, at the age of one.^[2]

Marriage

Julia E. Swift, 25, artist, of Wayne, Maine, and the widower Gladden B. Beers, 39, railroad ticket agent, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, married at Wayne on 15 Nov 1893.^[3]

Death

The gravestone of Julia Estelle Beers at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Wayne, Maine, is inscribed with the dates 1868-1947.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 164
2. ↑ Ester Swift in the Alfred R. Swift household, family #45, in "United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Kennebec > Wayne > image 5 of 24; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Marriage record of Gladden B. Beers and Julia E. Swift, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records 1892-1907 > Bean, 1906-Belanger, 1899 > image 3396 of 3944; multiple sources, Maine.
4. ↑ Photo of gravestone of the Beers and Lincoln families with inscriptions for Gladden Bishop Beers and "Julia Estelle his wife" (Find A Grave: Memorial #103487920)