Elizabeth Bishop (Bowles) Curtis (1831 - 1906)

Born 12 Jul 1831 in Chandler's Gore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 10 Jun 1906 at age 74 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Birth

Elizabeth Bishop Bowles was born at Chandler's Gore, an unincorporated area of Oxford County, Maine, that in 1833 was incorporated into Livermore, Maine, on 12 Jul 1831, as the daughter of Luke C. Bowles and Rebecca Joor (Ellis) Bowles.^[1]

Marriage

According to the 1928 history of Livermore, Maine, Elizabeth Bowles married Dexter Curtis, and they lived in Massachusetts,^[2] She was not living with her parents in 1850;^[3] she may be the Elizabeth Bolles, 19, born in Maine, living in the household of Charles and Caroline Alden at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in that year.^[4] The 1880 Census shows W. Dexter Curtis, 46, born in Massachusetts, his wife Elizabeth, 48, born in Maine, and two daughters, 15 and 24, both born in Massachusetts, living at Boston,^[5] and the age of the elder daughter supports 1855 as a reasonable estimate for the date of Dexter and Elizabeth's marriage.

Death

Elizabeth B. (Bowles) Curtis died of mitral regurgitation at Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 Jun 1906, with her age at her death recorded as 74 years, 10 months, 29 days.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Record of the family of Luke Bowles and Rebecca his wife, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862 > page 40; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 230 of 718.
2. ↑ 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 66
3. ↑ Luke Bowls household, family #278, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 34 of 43; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Charles Alden household, family #1247, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Massachusetts > Norfolk > Dorchester > image 157 of 190; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ W. Dexter Curtis household, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Massachusetts > Suffolk > Boston > ED 778 > image 9 of 47; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
6. ↑ Death certificate of Elizabeth B. Curtis, in Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, database with images, FamilySearch > 2224940 (004282871) > image 644 of 2080; State Archives, Boston.