Eva was born the sixth of seven children to Charles and Lavinia Mount. She was very close to her younger sister, Bessie [O'Brien], and they often dressed alike.
Eva had a daughter out of wedlock just two months after her mother died in 1918. She evidently never divulged the father's name, so we do not know if it was the result of an indiscretion or something more malevolent. While perhaps admirable in a way, the lack of knowing caused her daughter Helen lifelong sadness.
Eva married Russell Allen in 1919 and they had three children together. Of those three, only daughter Margaret survived. Eva and her two daughters were abandoned by her husband during the Depression, but Eva had support from her brothers Reuben ("Rube"), Elwood ("Dutch"), and Ira. Sister Stella, although increasingly crippled by arthritis, watched her children while Eva worked as a seamstress in a local mill. It was said she grew her hair long during WWII and gave it to the war effort, which used such material for bomb sights. A photo from that era shows it shoulder length.
She initially rented 639 New Buckley Street from Mr. Grundy (a prominent man in Bristol), and later bought it for her own. It was across the street from a large vacant lot and the remaining end of the old barge canal, where her grandchildren delighted in the great variety of fish and turtles. A block or two away was a park full of buttonwood trees. While raising her daughters, the house's central room for dominoes, cards, and conversations into the late night was the dining room. The front parlor would hold the Christmas tree, and its doors would not be opened until Christmas morning.
Around the late 1940s her daughter Margaret convinced Eva and Russell to reconcile. Family photos from about that time suggest a trip to Niagara Falls may have celebrated their renewed relationship. Russell died in 1953. Her daughter Helen had become a registered nurse, and cared for her about two years until she died of cancer. At one point she woke from sleep delirious and speaking with a strong Irish brogue. That astonished and puzzled her daughters, as they could not explain it.
She had a large newspaper portrait type photo of FDR among her papers when she died.
In the 1960s she and her daughter Helen lost a few hundred dollars to a scammer who supposedly invested them in some western "oil leases." They cut their losses short and lost no more money in that scam. Each year she would buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. She often said "Someday my ship will come in." She never won, but her real "ship" may have been the two daughters who dearly loved her.
Obituary summary: Surviving are 2 daughters: Miss Helen M. Allen of Bristol and Mrs. Rogers of Brighton, CO; a sister Mrs. John O'Brien of Bloomfield; 2 brothers Elwood Mount of Bristol and Ira Mount of Saratoga, CA.
Eva had a daughter out of wedlock just two months after her mother died in 1918. She evidently never divulged the father's name, so we do not know if it was the result of an indiscretion or something more malevolent. While perhaps admirable in a way, the lack of knowing caused her daughter Helen lifelong sadness.
Eva married Russell Allen in 1919 and they had three children together. Of those three, only daughter Margaret survived. Eva and her two daughters were abandoned by her husband during the Depression, but Eva had support from her brothers Reuben ("Rube"), Elwood ("Dutch"), and Ira. Sister Stella, although increasingly crippled by arthritis, watched her children while Eva worked as a seamstress in a local mill. It was said she grew her hair long during WWII and gave it to the war effort, which used such material for bomb sights. A photo from that era shows it shoulder length.
She initially rented 639 New Buckley Street from Mr. Grundy (a prominent man in Bristol), and later bought it for her own. It was across the street from a large vacant lot and the remaining end of the old barge canal, where her grandchildren delighted in the great variety of fish and turtles. A block or two away was a park full of buttonwood trees. While raising her daughters, the house's central room for dominoes, cards, and conversations into the late night was the dining room. The front parlor would hold the Christmas tree, and its doors would not be opened until Christmas morning.
Around the late 1940s her daughter Margaret convinced Eva and Russell to reconcile. Family photos from about that time suggest a trip to Niagara Falls may have celebrated their renewed relationship. Russell died in 1953. Her daughter Helen had become a registered nurse, and cared for her about two years until she died of cancer. At one point she woke from sleep delirious and speaking with a strong Irish brogue. That astonished and puzzled her daughters, as they could not explain it.
She had a large newspaper portrait type photo of FDR among her papers when she died.
In the 1960s she and her daughter Helen lost a few hundred dollars to a scammer who supposedly invested them in some western "oil leases." They cut their losses short and lost no more money in that scam. Each year she would buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. She often said "Someday my ship will come in." She never won, but her real "ship" may have been the two daughters who dearly loved her.
Obituary summary: Surviving are 2 daughters: Miss Helen M. Allen of Bristol and Mrs. Rogers of Brighton, CO; a sister Mrs. John O'Brien of Bloomfield; 2 brothers Elwood Mount of Bristol and Ira Mount of Saratoga, CA.
Eva was born the sixth of seven children to Charles and Lavinia Mount. She was very close to her younger sister, Bessie [O'Brien], and they often dressed alike.
Eva had a daughter out of wedlock just two months after her mother died in 1918. She evidently never divulged the father's name, so we do not know if it was the result of an indiscretion or something more malevolent. While perhaps admirable in a way, the lack of knowing caused her daughter Helen lifelong sadness.
Eva married Russell Allen in 1919 and they had three children together. Of those three, only daughter Margaret survived. Eva and her two daughters were abandoned by her husband during the Depression, but Eva had support from her brothers Reuben ("Rube"), Elwood ("Dutch"), and Ira. Sister Stella, although increasingly crippled by arthritis, watched her children while Eva worked as a seamstress in a local mill. It was said she grew her hair long during WWII and gave it to the war effort, which used such material for bomb sights. A photo from that era shows it shoulder length.
She initially rented 639 New Buckley Street from Mr. Grundy (a prominent man in Bristol), and later bought it for her own. It was across the street from a large vacant lot and the remaining end of the old barge canal, where her grandchildren delighted in the great variety of fish and turtles. A block or two away was a park full of buttonwood trees. While raising her daughters, the house's central room for dominoes, cards, and conversations into the late night was the dining room. The front parlor would hold the Christmas tree, and its doors would not be opened until Christmas morning.
Around the late 1940s her daughter Margaret convinced Eva and Russell to reconcile. Family photos from about that time suggest a trip to Niagara Falls may have celebrated their renewed relationship. Russell died in 1953. Her daughter Helen had become a registered nurse, and cared for her about two years until she died of cancer. At one point she woke from sleep delirious and speaking with a strong Irish brogue. That astonished and puzzled her daughters, as they could not explain it.
She had a large newspaper portrait type photo of FDR among her papers when she died.
In the 1960s she and her daughter Helen lost a few hundred dollars to a scammer who supposedly invested them in some western "oil leases." They cut their losses short and lost no more money in that scam. Each year she would buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. She often said "Someday my ship will come in." She never won, but her real "ship" may have been the two daughters who dearly loved her.
Obituary summary: Surviving are 2 daughters: Miss Helen M. Allen of Bristol and Mrs. Rogers of Brighton, CO; a sister Mrs. John O'Brien of Bloomfield; 2 brothers Elwood Mount of Bristol and Ira Mount of Saratoga, CA.
Eva had a daughter out of wedlock just two months after her mother died in 1918. She evidently never divulged the father's name, so we do not know if it was the result of an indiscretion or something more malevolent. While perhaps admirable in a way, the lack of knowing caused her daughter Helen lifelong sadness.
Eva married Russell Allen in 1919 and they had three children together. Of those three, only daughter Margaret survived. Eva and her two daughters were abandoned by her husband during the Depression, but Eva had support from her brothers Reuben ("Rube"), Elwood ("Dutch"), and Ira. Sister Stella, although increasingly crippled by arthritis, watched her children while Eva worked as a seamstress in a local mill. It was said she grew her hair long during WWII and gave it to the war effort, which used such material for bomb sights. A photo from that era shows it shoulder length.
She initially rented 639 New Buckley Street from Mr. Grundy (a prominent man in Bristol), and later bought it for her own. It was across the street from a large vacant lot and the remaining end of the old barge canal, where her grandchildren delighted in the great variety of fish and turtles. A block or two away was a park full of buttonwood trees. While raising her daughters, the house's central room for dominoes, cards, and conversations into the late night was the dining room. The front parlor would hold the Christmas tree, and its doors would not be opened until Christmas morning.
Around the late 1940s her daughter Margaret convinced Eva and Russell to reconcile. Family photos from about that time suggest a trip to Niagara Falls may have celebrated their renewed relationship. Russell died in 1953. Her daughter Helen had become a registered nurse, and cared for her about two years until she died of cancer. At one point she woke from sleep delirious and speaking with a strong Irish brogue. That astonished and puzzled her daughters, as they could not explain it.
She had a large newspaper portrait type photo of FDR among her papers when she died.
In the 1960s she and her daughter Helen lost a few hundred dollars to a scammer who supposedly invested them in some western "oil leases." They cut their losses short and lost no more money in that scam. Each year she would buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. She often said "Someday my ship will come in." She never won, but her real "ship" may have been the two daughters who dearly loved her.
Obituary summary: Surviving are 2 daughters: Miss Helen M. Allen of Bristol and Mrs. Rogers of Brighton, CO; a sister Mrs. John O'Brien of Bloomfield; 2 brothers Elwood Mount of Bristol and Ira Mount of Saratoga, CA.
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