Eliza A. Wing (1835 - 1851)

Born 15 Dec 1835 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Feb 1851 at age 15 in East Livermore, Kennebec, Maine, United States

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Biography

Eliza A. Wing was born at Livermore, Maine, on 15 Dec 1835, the daughter of Obed Wing and Asenath (Atkins) Wing.^[1][2]

Eliza A. Wing died on 5 Feb 1851 at East Livermore, Maine, and she is buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Livermore Falls, Maine, where her gravestone gives her age at her death as 14 years, 1 month, 20 days,^[3]

Research Note

The Mason genealogy gives her death date as 5 Feb 1881,^[2] clearly a typo; the date of death and age at death on her gravestone show the date as 5 Feb 1851.

Sources

1. ↑ George W. Wing, "The Wing Family in America," The Owl, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1917), page 1719
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Edna Warren Mason, Descendants of Capt. Hugh Mason in America (New Haven, Conn., 1937), page 293
3. ↑ Photo of gravestone of "Eliza A., dau. of Obed & Asenath B. Wing" (Find A Grave: Memorial #179857223)