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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:354Search: Full Last First
id 354 lastname Doane firstname Mariah Laura sex f birth_date 1833.11.15 birth_place Worcester Co, MA date_admitted 1842c covenant_signed 1854.12.25 shaker_residences Hancock 1848, 1850-1851, 1854-1856, 1860, 1870, 1874, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1892, 1892. health Poor health 1884.01.24, MPH.8000 p117. occupation Tailoress, 1870. Housekeeper, 1880. departure_apostasy From Petersham, MA? Came out of the little girls order 1848.12.09, DeWint.851. 1850 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Joseph Patten family 121: age 16, born MA. Age 11, in Hancock school 1851, MPH.1003a. Signed covenant 1854.12.25, NOC.13,602, p54. 1855 MA census, Hancock family 24, age 21, born MA. Visited Enfield, CT 1856.09.05, NOC.TDM. 1860 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Simon Mabee Chh family 2215: age 27, born MA. 1870 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 96: age 36, tailoress, born MA. 'Chh Elders from Hancock and Julia Johnson come over to make a Chh visit & especially to see the Ministry concerning Mariah Doane,' Watervliet, NY 1874.01.06, OClWHi.V:B-120. 1880 U.S. census, Pittsfield, MA [Hancock Chh] family 544: age 46, housekeeper, born MA. Went to Niagara Falls summer 1882, MPH.8000 p115. 'Maria Doan has been ailing for several months, and of late her left ankle and foot has been swollen and painful was unable to remain in the Office has gone up to the dwelling house,' Lucy J. Osborn letter to Groveland 1884.05.04, OClWHi.IV:A-20. Res Hancock Chh 1890, NOC.13.361. Died 1892.04.25, age 58 yrs 5m 10d, MPH.8000 p212. Found dead in her bed (the bedroom door locked from within), badly decomposed, had not been seen for 4 days, had earlier hinted at committing suicide & was not considered to be of sound mind; medical examiner Paddock & Dr. Roberts decided she had died from natural cause, the bursting of a tumor in her neck 1892.04.28, MPH.370, p88. Buried west Pittsfield cemetery, MPB.HVR-13, p72. Born Peterdsham, NH, daughter of Harding & Amelia (DeWitt) Doane; occupation housework; died of 'Goitre, found dead,' Hancock MVR. notes 1892.04.25 death_date Hancock death_location Died from tumor bursting in neck, NOC.10,345. death_cause MPH.8000 p212.