Mary Holbrook
Daughter of Gideon Holbrook and Nancy Ellis, born in 1826, a sister of Richard Blackmer Holbrook and the Polly of her father's will. She never married, lived with her brother Eliphalet at Manomet, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died at his house in 1899, outlived by only one of her four brothers. Her obituary called her a peace-maker.
Life
- 1826Born9 Mar 1826
Date from the Holbrook master tree.
documentedprobable - —LivedManomet, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Unmarried; lived with her brother Eliphalet at Manomet.
compiledprobableSources
- Reasoning:
research/holbrook/Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md
- Reasoning:
- 1899Died5 Jan 1899, Manomet, Plymouth, Massachusetts
At her brother Eliphalet's house, by her obituary.
- —Buried
Family
- Father
- Mother
- Nancy Ellisdocumentedproven
Pedigree
Notes
The “Polly” of her father’s will (1841). Unmarried; lived with her brother Eliphalet at Manomet. Her death record names her father Gideon Holbrook, born at Wellfleet, and her mother Nancy Ellis: the only record found that gives Gideon’s birthplace. Her obituary is in Haig Adadourian’s pamphlet “Dying, and, Behold, We Live” (Plymouth, 1899). She died, unmarried, at her brother Eliphalet’s house at Manomet on 5 Jan 1899. The obituary calls her “a peace-maker,” and notes that “Of her four brothers only one, Eliphalet Holbrook, of Manomet, survives her.”
Mollie's typescript
Her mother's will left Mary all the household furniture, clothing and movables, and half the rest of the estate.
I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Holbrook all my household furniture, clothing and indoor movables in the house I now reside.
scan 10 →She sent newspapers from Massachusetts to her brother Richard on Whidbey Island, who read everything that came to his pioneer home.
a reader of everything that came to his pioneer home -- the leading "Coast" papers, and those sent by his sister Mary from Massachusetts.
p. 8 →
Connections
- In her ancestry
- 49 notable connections →
Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Mary's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.