(Contributed by CLAPP Family Member and FAG Contributor, sleuth2:
MARY EDITH "May" (WALLING), b.1895, Hingham, MA, d.1961, Scituate, MA, a daughter of William Walling and Edith May (Lake), both of Devon, England and later Scituate and Hingham, MA.
She was born in Hingham, MA but her family moved to Old Oaken Bucket Road in Scituate, MA, not far from where her paternal grandparents resided. At this time her father was building an extension of the cranberry bogs on Old Oaken Bucket Road for Henry Northey and he rented this home while the owner, Col. Furlong, was traveling. William's parents lived a few houses down, as his father was foreman/manager of the bog. William and Edith then moved back to Hingham where their other two children were born.
May's grandfather, George Walling, of Teignmouth, Devon, England, was a peat bog expert and master gardener. In the late 1890's he immigrated with his family to assist in the expansions of some of the vast network of cranberry bogs on Cape Cod. While residing in Scituate he also raised the 'Senator Dunlop' variety of strawberries.
May received her early education in Hingham schools and graduated from Bridgewater Normal School (the State Teachers College). She taught five years in Wareham, MA, at the time when one teacher taught all subjects.
On December 28, 1916, May married RICHARD "Dick" CLAPP, a son of Elijah Thomas Clapp and Ann Rosini (Clapp) of Greenbush (Scituate), MA; they were fourth cousins. These two Clapp lines had lived and owned businesses across from the pond in Greenbush, MA for several generations.
May's father William had two younger sisters who each married brothers of Richard Clapp: Annie Walling married William H. Clapp, who before his death, donated the historic grist mill in Greenbush to the town of Scituate. His sister Mary Walling married Everett Lincoln Clapp.
May and Richard Clapp had two children: Dorothy Ann Clapp, and Richard Walling Clapp.
May outlived Richard and resided at the family home on Country Way until her health began to fail. Daughter Dorothy and her husband, Lawrence Langley, built an in-law apartment onto their family homestead on Old Oaken Bucket Road, where Dorothy cared for her until her death).
(Contributed by CLAPP Family Member and FAG Contributor, sleuth2:
MARY EDITH "May" (WALLING), b.1895, Hingham, MA, d.1961, Scituate, MA, a daughter of William Walling and Edith May (Lake), both of Devon, England and later Scituate and Hingham, MA.
She was born in Hingham, MA but her family moved to Old Oaken Bucket Road in Scituate, MA, not far from where her paternal grandparents resided. At this time her father was building an extension of the cranberry bogs on Old Oaken Bucket Road for Henry Northey and he rented this home while the owner, Col. Furlong, was traveling. William's parents lived a few houses down, as his father was foreman/manager of the bog. William and Edith then moved back to Hingham where their other two children were born.
May's grandfather, George Walling, of Teignmouth, Devon, England, was a peat bog expert and master gardener. In the late 1890's he immigrated with his family to assist in the expansions of some of the vast network of cranberry bogs on Cape Cod. While residing in Scituate he also raised the 'Senator Dunlop' variety of strawberries.
May received her early education in Hingham schools and graduated from Bridgewater Normal School (the State Teachers College). She taught five years in Wareham, MA, at the time when one teacher taught all subjects.
On December 28, 1916, May married RICHARD "Dick" CLAPP, a son of Elijah Thomas Clapp and Ann Rosini (Clapp) of Greenbush (Scituate), MA; they were fourth cousins. These two Clapp lines had lived and owned businesses across from the pond in Greenbush, MA for several generations.
May's father William had two younger sisters who each married brothers of Richard Clapp: Annie Walling married William H. Clapp, who before his death, donated the historic grist mill in Greenbush to the town of Scituate. His sister Mary Walling married Everett Lincoln Clapp.
May and Richard Clapp had two children: Dorothy Ann Clapp, and Richard Walling Clapp.
May outlived Richard and resided at the family home on Country Way until her health began to fail. Daughter Dorothy and her husband, Lawrence Langley, built an in-law apartment onto their family homestead on Old Oaken Bucket Road, where Dorothy cared for her until her death).
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Mary E. Walling, 1895-1961, wife of Richard Clapp
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