Lucy (Baker) Wyer (1795 - 1881)

Born 2 Apr 1795 in Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 11 Feb 1881 at age 85 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Lucy Baker was born at Phillipston, Massachusetts, on 2 Apr 1795, the daughter of Charles and Anna Baker.^[1][2]

Marriage

Lucy Baker married William Wyer.^[3][2] On 17 Jan 1819, the town clerk of Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts), certified that "an intention of marriage between Mr. William Wyer of Livermore and Miss Lucy Baker of Phillipston hath ben [sic] entered with me fourteen days prior to this date and hath ben [sic] published in the Town of Livermore as the Law directs."^[4] Their first known child was born at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) on 16 Jan 1820.^[5]

Death

Lucy (Baker) Wyer died at Livermore, Maine, on 11 Feb 1881 and is buried at the Hillman Ferry Cemetery there. where her gravestone shows her age at her death as 85 years, 10 months.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass., 1906), page 10
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Photo of gravestone of "Lucy, wife of William Wyer" (Find A Grave: Memorial #118449547)
3. ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 17
4. ↑ Marriage intention of William Wyer and Lucy Baker, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > unpaginated > Marriages and marriage intentions, 1811-1842 > image 339 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
5. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862", page 10; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 213 of 718