Mary Emma Isham
Mary Emma Isham was born on March 23, 1843, in Underhill, Vermont, to Franklin and Rebecca Isham. Her father was a farmer who owned $2,000 of real estate and $200 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Williston, Vermont, and by the late 1860s, she was living in Douglas, Massachusetts. She married Albert Hamilton Marsh on September 25, 1869. They had two children: Franklin, born around 1870; and Mildred, born around 1875.
 
Her husband worked as an “axe temperer” in Douglas, and by 1870, they owned $350 of personal property. They moved to Bennington, Kansas, in the 1870s and then to Highgate, Vermont, in the late 1800s. She died there of pancreatic cancer on October 28, 1918.
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(5633)Isham, Mary Emma ~ Marsh, Mary Emma1843-03-231918-10-28
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 1

  • (9234) [writer] ~ Mary E. Isham to Adelaide Crossman, 1 June 1889

People - Records: 6

  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [sibling-in-law of] (3391) Burr, Frederick Phineas
  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [aunt/uncle of] (3395) Burr, Ida Rebecca
  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [sibling of] (3399) Isham, Hiram Spaulding
  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [sibling of] (3401) Crossman, Adelaide
  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [aunt/uncle of] (5321) Crossman, Sarah Adelaide
  • (5633) Isham, Mary Emma is the [aunt/uncle of] (5322) Crossman, George M.

Places - Records: 4

  • (1526) [birth] ~ Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont
  • (2389) [death] ~ Highgate, Franklin County, Vermont
  • (3287) [residence in 1860] ~ Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont
  • (3712) [residence in 1870] ~ Douglas, Worcester County, Massachusetts

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SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008, available from Ancestry.com