Elvira was the only child born to Isaac Pratt and Abigail Parcher. Isaac was previously married. His first wife Hannah died a year and a half before he married Abigail in 1826. At the time of his marriage to Abigail, he had eight children aged about 9 to 25.
Isaac was a farmer who lived on what is now called the Campbell Road, which more or less runs along the Dead River. Abigail gave birth to Elvira Pratt on February 21, 1827. Abigail was then about 39. This blessing was soon followed by a loss. The following April 15th, Isaac's youngest son, 13-year-old Isaac Jr., drowned in the Dead River.
Over the next few years Elvira's step siblings began to marry and leave home. Many left Leeds altogether to look for work. During the mid-19th century a significant percentage of Leeds' young adults left to work in the factories of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, mostly to never return. Her step-sister Sophronia Pratt married Nicholas Norcross, a man who would later be known as the "New England Timber King" as he established a successful lumber operation in Lowell, Massachusetts and also held patents to do with mill machinery. Sophronia died there in 1847 of tuberculosis.
Elvira married Stephen Deane of Leeds in 1844. The couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Stephen set up a school for penmanship and commercial writing for two years. Then Stephen took a job working as a clerk for Nicholas Norcross. During the next decade this couple had three children: Abbie, Henry Homer and Rosa. Henry died of dysentery a few months short of his second birthday.
Isaac died in 1851, and was likely buried with his first wife Hannah. All of the Pratt graves in the Knapp Cemetery were lost, so his exact place of burial is unknown.
By the 1855 Massachusetts census Abigail had gone to Massachusetts to live with Elvira's family. The entry reads "Wid. Abby Pratt." She was likely needed there, as Elvira had also contracted tuberculosis. Less than a month after this census was taken Elvira died in Leeds on October 12, 1855, at age 28.
After Elvira's death Abigail continued to live with Stephen Deane, who returned to Leeds to live permanently. He remarried before long and had another four children.
Elvira's stone was signed by the maker as "D. Nihols Lowell, Mass." Curiously though, he misspelled his own name. He was David Nichols, who was a carver from Lowell. It is interesting to think of Stephen Deane bringing this stone back to Maine.
Henry Homer's name is also on this stone. According to Stephen Deane's diary Henry was disinterred and brought to Maine to be buried with his mother.
Stephen's diary also said there was no photo or likeness of Elvira.
Isaac was a farmer who lived on what is now called the Campbell Road, which more or less runs along the Dead River. Abigail gave birth to Elvira Pratt on February 21, 1827. Abigail was then about 39. This blessing was soon followed by a loss. The following April 15th, Isaac's youngest son, 13-year-old Isaac Jr., drowned in the Dead River.
Over the next few years Elvira's step siblings began to marry and leave home. Many left Leeds altogether to look for work. During the mid-19th century a significant percentage of Leeds' young adults left to work in the factories of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, mostly to never return. Her step-sister Sophronia Pratt married Nicholas Norcross, a man who would later be known as the "New England Timber King" as he established a successful lumber operation in Lowell, Massachusetts and also held patents to do with mill machinery. Sophronia died there in 1847 of tuberculosis.
Elvira married Stephen Deane of Leeds in 1844. The couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Stephen set up a school for penmanship and commercial writing for two years. Then Stephen took a job working as a clerk for Nicholas Norcross. During the next decade this couple had three children: Abbie, Henry Homer and Rosa. Henry died of dysentery a few months short of his second birthday.
Isaac died in 1851, and was likely buried with his first wife Hannah. All of the Pratt graves in the Knapp Cemetery were lost, so his exact place of burial is unknown.
By the 1855 Massachusetts census Abigail had gone to Massachusetts to live with Elvira's family. The entry reads "Wid. Abby Pratt." She was likely needed there, as Elvira had also contracted tuberculosis. Less than a month after this census was taken Elvira died in Leeds on October 12, 1855, at age 28.
After Elvira's death Abigail continued to live with Stephen Deane, who returned to Leeds to live permanently. He remarried before long and had another four children.
Elvira's stone was signed by the maker as "D. Nihols Lowell, Mass." Curiously though, he misspelled his own name. He was David Nichols, who was a carver from Lowell. It is interesting to think of Stephen Deane bringing this stone back to Maine.
Henry Homer's name is also on this stone. According to Stephen Deane's diary Henry was disinterred and brought to Maine to be buried with his mother.
Stephen's diary also said there was no photo or likeness of Elvira.
Elvira was the only child born to Isaac Pratt and Abigail Parcher. Isaac was previously married. His first wife Hannah died a year and a half before he married Abigail in 1826. At the time of his marriage to Abigail, he had eight children aged about 9 to 25.
Isaac was a farmer who lived on what is now called the Campbell Road, which more or less runs along the Dead River. Abigail gave birth to Elvira Pratt on February 21, 1827. Abigail was then about 39. This blessing was soon followed by a loss. The following April 15th, Isaac's youngest son, 13-year-old Isaac Jr., drowned in the Dead River.
Over the next few years Elvira's step siblings began to marry and leave home. Many left Leeds altogether to look for work. During the mid-19th century a significant percentage of Leeds' young adults left to work in the factories of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, mostly to never return. Her step-sister Sophronia Pratt married Nicholas Norcross, a man who would later be known as the "New England Timber King" as he established a successful lumber operation in Lowell, Massachusetts and also held patents to do with mill machinery. Sophronia died there in 1847 of tuberculosis.
Elvira married Stephen Deane of Leeds in 1844. The couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Stephen set up a school for penmanship and commercial writing for two years. Then Stephen took a job working as a clerk for Nicholas Norcross. During the next decade this couple had three children: Abbie, Henry Homer and Rosa. Henry died of dysentery a few months short of his second birthday.
Isaac died in 1851, and was likely buried with his first wife Hannah. All of the Pratt graves in the Knapp Cemetery were lost, so his exact place of burial is unknown.
By the 1855 Massachusetts census Abigail had gone to Massachusetts to live with Elvira's family. The entry reads "Wid. Abby Pratt." She was likely needed there, as Elvira had also contracted tuberculosis. Less than a month after this census was taken Elvira died in Leeds on October 12, 1855, at age 28.
After Elvira's death Abigail continued to live with Stephen Deane, who returned to Leeds to live permanently. He remarried before long and had another four children.
Elvira's stone was signed by the maker as "D. Nihols Lowell, Mass." Curiously though, he misspelled his own name. He was David Nichols, who was a carver from Lowell. It is interesting to think of Stephen Deane bringing this stone back to Maine.
Henry Homer's name is also on this stone. According to Stephen Deane's diary Henry was disinterred and brought to Maine to be buried with his mother.
Stephen's diary also said there was no photo or likeness of Elvira.
Isaac was a farmer who lived on what is now called the Campbell Road, which more or less runs along the Dead River. Abigail gave birth to Elvira Pratt on February 21, 1827. Abigail was then about 39. This blessing was soon followed by a loss. The following April 15th, Isaac's youngest son, 13-year-old Isaac Jr., drowned in the Dead River.
Over the next few years Elvira's step siblings began to marry and leave home. Many left Leeds altogether to look for work. During the mid-19th century a significant percentage of Leeds' young adults left to work in the factories of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, mostly to never return. Her step-sister Sophronia Pratt married Nicholas Norcross, a man who would later be known as the "New England Timber King" as he established a successful lumber operation in Lowell, Massachusetts and also held patents to do with mill machinery. Sophronia died there in 1847 of tuberculosis.
Elvira married Stephen Deane of Leeds in 1844. The couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Stephen set up a school for penmanship and commercial writing for two years. Then Stephen took a job working as a clerk for Nicholas Norcross. During the next decade this couple had three children: Abbie, Henry Homer and Rosa. Henry died of dysentery a few months short of his second birthday.
Isaac died in 1851, and was likely buried with his first wife Hannah. All of the Pratt graves in the Knapp Cemetery were lost, so his exact place of burial is unknown.
By the 1855 Massachusetts census Abigail had gone to Massachusetts to live with Elvira's family. The entry reads "Wid. Abby Pratt." She was likely needed there, as Elvira had also contracted tuberculosis. Less than a month after this census was taken Elvira died in Leeds on October 12, 1855, at age 28.
After Elvira's death Abigail continued to live with Stephen Deane, who returned to Leeds to live permanently. He remarried before long and had another four children.
Elvira's stone was signed by the maker as "D. Nihols Lowell, Mass." Curiously though, he misspelled his own name. He was David Nichols, who was a carver from Lowell. It is interesting to think of Stephen Deane bringing this stone back to Maine.
Henry Homer's name is also on this stone. According to Stephen Deane's diary Henry was disinterred and brought to Maine to be buried with his mother.
Stephen's diary also said there was no photo or likeness of Elvira.
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Here sleeps their dear and sacred dust
But they still live-- for heaven is just.
Their spirits now together blessed
Have found their life of love and rest.
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