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Mary Mattoon Wolcott

Female 1863 - 1949  (86 years)


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  • Name Mary Mattoon Wolcott 
    Birth 14 May 1863  Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death 22 Aug 1949  Alameda, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I307  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2020 

    Father Elizur Wolcott,   b. 7 Aug 1817   d. Mar 1901, Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Martha Lyman Dwight,   b. 25 Dec 1824 
    Marriage 15 Jul 1846  [1, 6, 7
    Family ID F304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Edward Bull Clapp,   b. 14 Apr 1856, Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Feb 1919, Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 22 Dec 1886  Morgan, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10, 11
    Children 
    +1. Miriam Wolcott Clapp,   b. 10 Nov 1890, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1973, Alameda, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F10344  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Nov 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Called in many sources May Matoon Wolcott. According to a letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, her given name was actually Mary. She attended Wellesley as a member of the class of 1885, but did not graduate.

      Her ashes were interred with those of her father.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2419] Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut by Chandler Wolcott. Rochester, New York: The Genesee Press, 1912.

    2. [S2424] U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907-1918, on ancestry.com., place only.

    3. [S2426] Find a Grave page for May Mattoon Wolcott Clapp.

    4. [S2430] The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass. by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight. New York: John F. Trow, 1874., date only.

    5. [S2530] Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity by David McClure, with notes (including a genealogy of David McClure's descendants) by Franklin B. Dexter. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1899., date only.

    6. [S2430] The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass. by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight. New York: John F. Trow, 1874.

    7. [S2530] Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity by David McClure, with notes (including a genealogy of David McClure's descendants) by Franklin B. Dexter. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1899.

    8. [S2419] Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut by Chandler Wolcott. Rochester, New York: The Genesee Press, 1912., date only.

    9. [S1071] Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars., date only.

    10. [S2423] Illinois, U.S., Marriage Index, 1860-1920, on ancestry.com.

    11. [S2429] Yale Alumni Weekly, 18 Apr 1919, p. 807., date only.