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Edith Martha Clayton
Female 1879 - 1957

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  • Birth  14 Feb 1879  Townshend, Windham, Vermont, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender  Female 
    Residence  1906  Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census  1910  Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census  1920  Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census  1930  West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence  1935  West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Census  1940  West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Age: 61 EmploymentCode: 5; EmploymentDetails: Home Housework; EnumerationDistrict: 14-315; GradeCompleted: High School, 4th year. Married; Mother-in-law 
    Race  White  [3
    Name  Edith Ellis  [3
    Died  7 Jul 1957  Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Buried  10 Jul 1957  Pine Grove Cemetery, West Brookfield, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID  I18  West Brookfield Families
    Last Modified  01 May 2024 
     
    Father  Albert Clayton,   b. Abt 1847, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Mary Eliza Bullard,   b. Abt 1852, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Jan 1870 
    Family ID  F14  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Eugene Sumner Ellis,   b. 15 Oct 1883, Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Aug 1950, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  15 Oct 1906  West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
     1. Martha Melvilla Ellis,   b. 7 Jan 1908, Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1965, West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Bertha Louise Ellis,   b. 15 Mar 1911, Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1975, Englewood, Los Angeles, California Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F12  Group Sheet
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S1191] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston, Massachusetts; Date: 2004;).
      Ellis Martha Melvilla Holden 1908 576 339 Birth
      Record names mother as Edith M. Clayton, who was born in Townsend, VT.

    2. [S1677] Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954, (Name: familysearch.org;).

    3. [S1868] 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01656; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 14-315.
      Record for Edith Ellis
      https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2442&h=94200173&indiv=try

    4. [S391] 1930 United States Census, West Brookfield, Worcester County,Massachusetts, T626 #966..
      Ellis, Edith married and living in household of son-in-law Norman Smith. Husband Eugene is not in the household.

    5. [S2061] Springfield Union, Springfield, Massachusetts (online archive), "Mrs. Edith M. Ellis," Tuesday, 9 July 1957, Page 27. Genealogy Bank (http://www.genealogybank.com:accessed 11 June 2016/).
      Obituary of Mrs. Edith M. (Clayton) Ellis, died Sunday in Worcester City Hospital. Burial to be in Pine Grove Cemetery, West Brookfield.

    6. [S1191] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston, Massachusetts; Date: 2004;), Massachusetts, Worcester, Princeton, Marriages, 1906; Vol. 564:pg. 401.
      Married Oct. 15, 1906, in West Boyltston, Eugene S. Ellis, age 24, farmer, of Worcester, born Presque Isle, Maine, son of Edwin W. and Nellie (Page) Ellis, and Edith M. Clayton, age 27, or Princeton, born Townsend, VT, daughter of Albert and Mary (Bullard) Clayton. Married by John E, Dodge, Minister of the Gospel, of West Boylston.
      Marriage also recorded in West Boylston, and Worcester.
      Ellis Eugene S. West Boylston 1906 564 449 Marriage
      Ellis Eugene Summer Worcester 1906 564 535 Marriage