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Lydia E. <I>Cole</I> Willis Douglass

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Lydia E. Cole Willis Douglass

Birth
Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Death
26 Jun 1903 (aged 81)
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Burial
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec-Q Lot-523 Grv-2
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Daughter of William Cole and Lupira Spaulding. She was the 5th born of their 10 children. Buckfield, Maine birth records give date as 21 Jul 1821; her gravestone gives birth year as 1822.

She married 1) Joseph J. Willis on 26 Sep 1841 in Buckfield, Maine. They had 2 children:

. Ellen I. Willis (1844 - 1884)
+ sp: Cephas Henry Douglass
. Maria Lupira Willis (1847 - 1894)
+ sp: Frank Ambrose Herriman

After Joseph's death, she married 2) Nehemiah Owen Douglass, as his second wife, on 8 Dec 1856 in Buckfield, Maine. Nehemiah Douglass was a merchant, and after working as a stove dealer in Buckfield, he moved his family to Lisbon, Maine where he ran a store, then moved again to Cape Elizabeth, Maine where he owned a dry goods and grocery store. By 1880 he had retired to the Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine, where both he and his wife died.
Daughter of William Cole and Lupira Spaulding. She was the 5th born of their 10 children. Buckfield, Maine birth records give date as 21 Jul 1821; her gravestone gives birth year as 1822.

She married 1) Joseph J. Willis on 26 Sep 1841 in Buckfield, Maine. They had 2 children:

. Ellen I. Willis (1844 - 1884)
+ sp: Cephas Henry Douglass
. Maria Lupira Willis (1847 - 1894)
+ sp: Frank Ambrose Herriman

After Joseph's death, she married 2) Nehemiah Owen Douglass, as his second wife, on 8 Dec 1856 in Buckfield, Maine. Nehemiah Douglass was a merchant, and after working as a stove dealer in Buckfield, he moved his family to Lisbon, Maine where he ran a store, then moved again to Cape Elizabeth, Maine where he owned a dry goods and grocery store. By 1880 he had retired to the Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine, where both he and his wife died.

Inscription

N. O. DOUGLASS
BORN SEPT. 6, 1814.
DIED SEPT. 26, 1890.
LYDIA E. HIS WIFE
JULY 21, 1822.
DIED JUNE 26, 1903.



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