Mary Ellen Cowdery
Mary Ellen Cowdery was born on March 22, 1845, in Tunbridge, Vermont, to David Cowdery and Clarissa Tarbell. Her father was a farmer who owned $2,700 of real estate in 1850. Charles G. Blake began courting her around 1863, and they got married in South Royalton, Vermont, on February 7, 1867. The couple settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, and her husband worked as a telegraph operator. He died of yellow fever on April 11, 1876, while building a telegraphic fire alarm system in Rio de Janeiro. She married Thomas H. Johnson on December 25, 1879, and they settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Johnson died in 1905, and Mary passed away from diabetes in Windsor, Vermont, on November 1, 1914.
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(653)Cowdery, Mary E. ~ Blake, Mary E. ~ Johnson, Mary E.1845-03-221914-11-01
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 9

  • (2884) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 11 April 1865
  • (2885) [recipient] ~ Charles G. BLake to Mary E. Cowdery, 4 February 1863
  • (2886) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 26 April 1863
  • (2887) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 8 August 1863
  • (3518) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 5 July 1863
  • (3519) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 8 May 1863
  • (3520) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 13 January 1863
  • (3521) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 23 June 1865
  • (3522) [recipient] ~ Charles G. Blake to Mary E. Cowdery, 5 April 1863

People - Records: 1

  • (652) Blake, Charles G. is the [husband of] (653) Cowdery, Mary E.

Places - Records: 2

  • (632) [birth] ~ Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont
  • (633) [death] ~ Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont

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SOURCES

1850 and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Vital Records, 1720-1908, available from Ancestry.com; Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray Genealogy: William Cowdrey of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630, and his Descendants (New York, NY: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., 1911).