Hannah Read Tyler
Wife of Capt. Nathan Low, whom she married at Deer Isle, Maine, in 1832, and mother of Harriet Phillips Low, who married Richard Blackmer Holbrook. A daughter of Rowland Tyler of Dixmont, she is said to have been engaged to teach school at Deer Isle. Widowed, she died in 1886 at Beverly, Massachusetts, where two of her sons had settled, and was buried at Deer Isle.
Life
- 1809Born12 Dec 1809, Dixmont, Maine
Brigham and Mollie Pfeiffer's typescript agree on the date; her death record gives her birthplace as Dixmont. No birth record seen.
- 1832Married Nathan Low16 Sept 1832, Deer Isle, Maine
"Maine, Vital Records" index, Nathan Low and Hannah Tyler. Mollie's chart gives 4 Oct 1832, and her typescript once typed Feb 25, 1835, her brother Frederick Tyler's wedding date.
documentedproven - 1886Died9 Apr 1886, Beverly, Massachusetts
Massachusetts death record, aged 76, widowed. The 1887 power of attorney gives 8 April, and Find a Grave 7 April.
- —BuriedDeer Isle, Maine
Forest Hill Cemetery per Find a Grave, where she is indexed as "Hannah R. Hardy Lowe"; "Hardy" is an error (Hannah Hardy was her father-in-law's second wife).
Family
- Father
- Rowland Tyler
Her death record names her father "Roland Tyler." Brigham (Tyler Genealogy 1:221) names her as a daughter of Rowland Tyler and Sally Ginn of Dixmont; Mollie agrees.
documentedprovenSources
- Massachusetts death record of Hannah R. (Tyler) Low, Beverly, 1886
- Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), 2 vols.
- Reasoning:
research/low/Tyler_Ginn_Line_Research.md
- Mother
- Sally Ginn
Brigham. Her death record names her mother "Hannah Ginn," the right surname but probably the informant's slip for Sally.
compiledprobableSources
- Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), 2 vols.
- Massachusetts death record of Hannah R. (Tyler) Low, Beverly, 1886
- Reasoning:
research/low/Tyler_Ginn_Line_Research.md
- Spouse
- Nathan Low
"my wife Hannah R Low" in his deeds of 1838; his widow "Hannah R Low" petitioned on his estate in 1875. Brigham (1:221): Hannah Reed Tyler "married Captain Nathan Lowe, of Deer Isle, Maine, who died after a disaster to a boat."
documentedprovenSources
- Maine vital records indexes: the Low family of Deer Isle
- Deeds of Nathan Low Jun. of Deer Isle to Hiram Pond of Boston
- 1850 U.S. census, Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine: Nathan Low households
- Estate of Nathan Low of Deer Isle: petition of his widow Hannah R. Low
- Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), 2 vols.
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Capt. Nathan Low of Deer Isle, Maine, and mother of Harriet Phillips Low. They were married at Deer Isle on 16 Sept 1832 (the Maine vital records index); the marriage is recorded on his file. Brigham: “born Dec. 12, 1809; died April 9, 1886; married Captain Nathan Lowe, of Deer Isle, Maine, who died after a disaster to a boat.” Mollie says she “was engaged to teach school at Deer Isle,” and that some of her relatives thought she had married beneath her.
Mollie’s typescript has the marriage typed as Feb 25, 1835 and pencilled as Oct 4, 1832. Feb 25, 1835 is the wedding date of her brother Frederick to Diadamia P. Emery (Brigham no. 1963); Oct 4, 1832 agrees with Mollie’s own Low chart. The record gives 16 Sept 1832.
In 1850 she was “Hannah H. [R.],” 40, at Deer Isle with her husband and their ten children. She signed “Hannah R Low” on her petition to administer his estate in November 1875. She died at Beverly, Massachusetts, where her sons Daniel W. and Joseph E. had settled, and was buried at Deer Isle. On 17 Jan 1887 her son Rowland T. Low asked the Hancock County probate court for leave to sell her Deer Isle land to pay her debts, there being “no personal estate in said Deer Isle”; the heirs were her eight living lines, each to “one eighth part.” Her daughter Harriet’s power of attorney for the same sale was recorded in Penobscot County, which suggests she also owned land there, perhaps Tyler land at Dixmont.
Before her marriage she taught school, at Nahant and then at Deer Isle, where she met Nathan Low.
Named for her grandmother Hannah (Read) Tyler. Mollie recalled that grandmother’s lost will as saying “To my granddaughter, Hannah Read Tyler, I leave a silver spoon.” That is family tradition; the will has not been found.
Her mother’s parentage is unresolved (see Sally Ginn’s file), so everything on the Ginn side of her ancestry is provisional.
Open questions
- Her birth record at Dixmont.
- Her Hancock County estate file beyond Rowland’s petition, and any Penobscot County land.
- Bristol County probate for Hannah (Read) Tyler, 1822: does the will exist, and does it leave her the spoon?
Mollie's typescript
Ill most of the time from bearing so many children, she left much of the household to her eldest daughter Harriet, for which Mollie long resented her.
Harriet Low (8) was the eldest of a large family; her mother was ill most of the time from so much child-bearing ... For many years the writer felt a sense of resentment against a mother who would allow a willing child to work so hard.
p. 82 →Mollie's Tyler chart gives her birth at Dixmont, Maine, on 12 Dec 1809, her death in Massachusetts on 9 Apr 1886, and her marriage to Capt. Nathan Low.
HANNAH READ TYLER (6) Rowland 5, etc. as per above) Born Dec. 12, 1809 Dixmont Me. D Apr. 9, 1886, Mass.
p. 134 →Named for her grandmother Hannah White Read, she taught school at Nahant, where she found on the beach a diamond ring lost by a mysterious French lady; she died at Beverly at the home of her daughter Laura.
She was a teacher, and taught at one time in Nahant, Massachusetts, where, while walking one day on the beach, she found a beautiful diamond ring.
p. 142 →A Portland jeweller kept the ring; teaching at Deer Isle, she married Nathan Low against the wishes of some of her family, and was remembered for her pleasing manner and her beautifully written letters.
She was always spoken of by those who knew her, as being of pleasing manner, and always at ease. And an attractive woman, without being handsome. She wrote a beautiful letter, well composed and well written
p. 142 →Her grandmother Hannah (Read) Tyler, for whom she was named, left her a silver spoon, as Mollie remembered reading in the will, since lost.
"To my granddaughter, Hannah Read Tyler, I leave a silver spoon." The will has been lost.
p. 149 →
Checked against the records
- DisprovenCapt. Nathan Low married Hannah Read Tyler on 4 Oct 1832
The Maine vital records give 16 Sept 1832, at Deer Isle. Elsewhere the typescript has Feb. 25, 1835, corrected in pencil to Oct. 4, 1832; Feb. 25, 1835 is the wedding date of Hannah's brother Frederick Tyler. His death date here, 17 Sept 1874, is right.
Read it in the book, p. 69 → - DisprovenHannah Read Tyler married Capt. Nathan Low on 25 Feb 1835
They married at Deer Isle on 16 Sept 1832 (Maine vital records index). 25 Feb 1835 is the wedding date of her brother Frederick Tyler and Diadamia P. Emery (Tyler Genealogy), and the pencilled 4 Oct 1832 on the other copies of this page is not right either.
Read it in the book, p. 134 → - DisprovenHannah Read Tyler married Capt. Nathan Low on 4 Oct 1832
Close, but they married at Deer Isle on 16 Sept 1832 (Maine vital records index). The struck typed date, 25 Feb 1835, is the wedding date of her brother Frederick Tyler (Tyler Genealogy).
Read it in the book, p. 134 → - PossibleHannah (Read) Tyler's will left her granddaughter Hannah a silver spoon
Mollie's memory of reading the will is the only source. The will has not been found, and the Bristol County probate for 1822 has not yet been searched.
Read it in the book, p. 149 →
Connections
- In her ancestry
- 13 notable connections →
Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Hannah's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.