Mehetible (Wing) Lovejoy (1777 - 1856)

Born 13 Sep 1777 in District of Maine, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Died 13 Mar 1856 at age 78 in Franklin, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Mehetible Wing was born on 13 Sep 1777, the daughter of Reuben Wing and Priscilla (Unknown) Wing. The place of birth is unknown, but it was probably somewhere in the District of Maine in Massachusetts, United States. The birth was recorded at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts),^[1] almost certainly after his parents moved there, sometime in the 1790s.

Marriage

Mehitible Wing married Jacob Lovejoy.^[2] Their first known child was born at Livermore, Maine, on 28 Nov 1806.^[3]

Children

The children of Mehitable (Wing) Lovejoy are listed in the "Children" section of her husband's profile.

Death

Mehitible (Wing) Lovejoy died at Franklin, Maine.^[2] She is buried at the East Rumford Cemetery in Rumford, Maine, where her gravestone gives her death date as 13 Mar 1856 and her age at her death as 81.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 64; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 63 of 718
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} George W. Wing, "The Wing Family of America: A History and Genealogical Record of the Descendants of the Rev. John and Deborah Wing, Whose Four Sons With Their Widowed Mother Came to New England in 1632," The Owl, A Genealogical Quarterly Magazine (Kewaunee, Wis., 1919), page 1849
3. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 159; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 110 of 718
4. ↑ Photo of gravestone of Jacob Lovejoy and "Mehitable , his wife" (Find A Grave: Memorial #29400672)