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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:402Search: Full Last First
id 402 lastname Estabrook firstname Emma Fidella sex f birth_date 1875c birth_place 1880 date_admitted 1895.12.30 covenant_signed Hancock 1885-1891, 1895, 1900, 1904-1905, 1908, 1910, 1911. shaker_residences Poor health 1908. 'For years a hopeless cripple' before 1911. health Schoolteacher 1894, MPH.1003m. Seamstress for dolls, 1905. Guardian for a girl Nov 1908, MPH.1008. Seamstress, 1910. occupation From South Hadley, MA (see Fanny Estabrook's entry). Age 10-16, in Hancock school 1885-1891, MPH.1003d-j. Res Hancock Chh 1890, NOC.13.361. At Hancock Church Family 1895.01.01, NOC.10,345. Signed Hancock covenant 1895.12.31, MPH.370, p90. 1900 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 6: age 25, born MA Dec 1874, seamstress. See her letter on the fire which killed Conrad Schmidt: March 26 [1904], OClWHi.IV:A-19 (with undated letters at start of microfilm reel 18). 'We are quite busy now, making quantities of fancy articles for sale next summer. The needles must fly now, making the moments pass as swiftly. Perhaps you will be shocked when I tell you my present occupation is dressing dolls. We shall need about 15 of them of different classes and sizes,' Fidella Estabrook letter to Alonzo Hollister 1905.01.22, OClWHi.IV:A-20. Birdwatcher, Fidella Estabrook letter 1905.07.23, OClWHi.IV:A-20. 1910 U.S. census, Hancock MA family 92: age 35, born MA, seamstress. 'Sister Fidella has not been so well of late, in fact she has been confined to her bed most of the time for two or three months,' Sophia Helfrich letter to J.P. MacLean 1908.01.17, OClWHi.IV:A-20. 'For years a hopeless cripple,' died 1911.03.04, MPH.370 p94. Photos, DLC, MPH, OClWHi. departure_apostasy 1911.03.04 notes Hancock death_date Age 36 at death, MPH.8000 p219.