Murray Lewis Trask (1889 - 1941)

Born 24 Jan 1889 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Died Oct 1941 at age 52 in United States

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Biography

Murray Lewis Trask was born on 24 Jan 1889 in Yarmouth,Nova Scotia., Canada. He was the son of Samuel Trask and Mabel Wyman. This family immigrated to the United States in 1893, settling in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, where other members of his father Samuel's family lived. At the time of his World War I draft registration, Murray lived aboard the steamer Reliance in the port of Boston; he was a deck hand for the Boston Sand & Gravel Co. Murray died at about age 51 in October 1941; he was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9RW-CRF : accessed 12 June 2020), Murray Trask in household of Samuel Trask, Lynn city Ward 3, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 369, sheet 22B, family 446, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,644.
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZN2-LW7 : 24 August 2019), Murray Lewis Trask, 1917-1918.

Repositories

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 June 2020), memorial page for Murray Lewis Trask (1889–Oct 1941), Find a Grave Memorial no. 63509291, citing Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by john gibney (contributor 46859312) .