Miranda Freelove Trask (1869 - 1893)

Born 6 Nov 1869 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Daughter of George Nelson Trask and Susan Maria (Hardy) Trask

Wife of Embert Reuben Greene — married 25 Dec 1884 (to 5 Mar 1893) in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

Died 5 Mar 1893 at age 23 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Miranda Freelove Trask, the first child of George and Susan M. (Hardy) Trask, was born 6 Nov 1869 at Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA.^{[1] [2]}

She had three full siblings, namely: Infant Trask, George William, and Nellie and four maternal half siblings: namely John Collicutt, Anna Collicott, Phillip Collicott and William Collicott. There may be more siblings since in the 1900 census, her mother claims to have had 12 children. ^[3] She appears in the 1870 census with her family in Uxbridge. ^[4]

She moved with her family to the nearby town of Mendon and attended Schoolhouse #5 from age 5 in 1876 to age 14 in 1884. ^[5]

She appeared on the census of 16 June 1880 in the home of her parents at Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.^[6]

When she was 15, she married Embert Reuben "Bert" Greene on 25 Dec 1884 in Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA although she claimed to be 16 in the marriage record. ^[2]

Miranda died on 5 March 1893 at Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts at the age of 23 ^[1] and may be buried at Plot: Section 5, Prospect Hill Cemetery, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts [see Research Notes]. Her cause of death was listed as "Bright's Disease" on her death certificate ^[7] but her granddaughter, Mabel Payne claimed that she died in childbirth.

Children

Embert Reuben "Bert" Greene and Miranda Freelove Trask had the following children:

• Minnie Levinia Greene was born on 01 Feb 1886 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 07 Mar 1930 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She married Joseph A Payne on 14 Nov 1900 in North Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She married Javan Everett Ballou on 26 Sep 1906 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
• Bertha M Green was born on 15 Sep 1887 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She married George Pollard Pollette before 1907. She married William Timothy Comrie on 14 Dec 1912 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA She married Joseph L Mazon on 27 Jan 1923 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
• Freelove Amanda Greene was born about May 1889 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 17 Oct 1889 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (age 5 months, meningitis).

Census

16 June 1880

Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts

• George N. Trask 33 b. RI farmer.
• Susan M. Trask 46 wife b. MA.
• Miranda F. Trask 10 dau. b. MA.
• George W. Trask 3 son b. MA.
• Ann M. Hardy 17 step-dau. b. MA. seamstress.^[6]

Research Notes

There are two death registers for 1893 for the town of Uxbridge. Most of the information for Miranda is identical in the two registers with these exceptions:

Married(1), Buried: Ditto (2), Occupation: At Home, Rec'd by Secretary's Office Feb 1 1894 Divorced, Place of Burial: Uxbridge, Occupation: Seamstress, Date of Record: Jun 26/93

(1) It is unclear whether she was married or divorced at the time of her death. A search of the divorce records for Worcester County has not turned up a divorce proceeding for her. When her husband remarried three years later, he indicated that it was his second marriage but not whether he was a widower or a divorcee.

(2) There is one column for "Residence, Place of Death, Place of Burial" on one of the Uxbridge death registers. It appears that the entry in the this column for Miranda, a ditto mark, was intended to be dittoing "Uxbridge" from line 11 all the way to the end of the sheet. But later, another hand entered "Burial Upton" on line 12 which is just above Miranda's line making it appear that everyone from line 12 to line 16 was buried in Upton. I think the intention was to indicate that all these people resided, died and were buried in Uxbridge except for the person on line 12 where the separate notation was made.

According to the other Uxbridge death register, she was buried in Uxbridge. There are many small family cemeteries in Uxbridge. But only two large cemeteries: Prospect HIll Cemetery and St. Mary Parish Cemetery. Since she was not catholic, she is probably not in St. Mary's. FindAGrave has her listed in Prospect Hill Cemetery in section 5 under the name Freelove Trask but with no marker. This cemetery was established in 1795. At this time, her grave has not yet been located.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Miranda F Greene Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Miranda Freelove Trask Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
3. ↑ 1900 United States Federal Census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: T623 693; Page: 8A; Enumeration District:1649.(http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&h=75652759&ti=0&indiv=try.)
4. ↑ 1870 United States Federal Census, TRASK, George M. household no. 157, MA, Worcester, Uxbridge, pop. sch., line 27-30, Family no. 254, Ancestry.com online database with digital images citing: Roll: M593, (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/28647818:7163 :  : Last Accessed 25 Feb 2023), image 18 of 77.
5. ↑ TRASK, MIranda, school census, 1876, MA, Worcester, Mendon, p.8, Ancestry.com database with digital images citing: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/76952038:2495 : Last Accessed 25 Feb 2023), image 6 of 39.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Year: 1880; Census Place: Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: 563; Family History Film: 1254563; Page: 374A; Enumeration District: 816; Image: 0449 1880 US Census George N. Trask
7. ↑ GREENE, Miranda F. (TRASK), death register, 1893, MA, Worcester, Uxbridge, p. 1, line, 14, Ancestry.com database with digital images citing: Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988, (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40143_270110__0001-00001: Last Accessed 25 Feb 2023), image 1547 of 2479.

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between NJA and Claire (Sanders) Sears. Their most-recent common ancestors are George Trask and Susan Hardy, the great great grandparents of both NJA and Claire (Sanders) Sears. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 4th – 6th Cousin, based on sharing 36 cM across 1 segments.The reported range for 3C in the Shared Cm Project is 0-234 cM.