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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:404Search: Full Last First
id 404 lastname Estabrook firstname Fanny M. sex f birth_date 1870.10.05 birth_place Hadley, MA date_admitted 1880 covenant_signed 1892.10.03 shaker_residences Hancock 1885, 1890, 1892, 1900, 1910, 1919-1920, 1928, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1958, 1960. health Fancy worker, 1910. Domestic, 1920. Trustee, 1919. Eldress 1929-1960. Housekeeper, 1930. Needlework, housework (obituary). occupation From Hadley, MA, adm age 10 with her sister Fidella (obituary). Age 14, in Hancock school 1885, MPH.1003d. Res Hancock Chh 1890, NOC.13.361. Signed covenant at Hancock 1892.10.02, NOC.10,345, or 1892.10.03, MPH.370, p88. Visited Enfield CT 1895.10.16, MPH.8000 p123. 1900 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 6: age 29, born MA Oct 1870. 1910 U.S. census, Hancock MA family 92: age 39, born MA, fancy worker. Named 2d Eldress to serve with Caroline Helfrich 1919.01.07, NOC.10,345. 1920 U.S. census, Hancock, MA family 106, age 49, born MA, domestic. Res room 14 in brick dwelling 1928, MPH.OHA. 1930 U.S. census, Hancock, MA family 89: 2d in family, age 59, born MA, housekeeper. On town of Hancock voters' lists 1938 & 1946, MPH.1653a-b. 1940 U.S. census, Hancock MA family 58: age 69, completed 8 years of school, b. MA, res same house on April 1, 1935, working for pay or profit March 1940. 'Eldress Fannie Estabrook is eighty-seven, and feeble in mind and body. She lives on the second floor and does not come down stairs at all. I have a domestic nurse to care for her,' Mary Dahm letter to Mr. Leo Muhlfelder, 1958.02.07 (originals 1947-1961 at New York State Library, Albany; copies at MPH). Died 1960.09.19, age 89y 11m 14d, MPB.HVR-13, p73. Age 89 at death, burial at HSV cemetery, 'Eldress Estabrook, 89, Dies; Last Hancock Shaker Leader,' Berkshire Eagle, [Sept 1960?], undated clipping in HSV archives. Photos, DLC (knitting), MPH, NCH. departure_apostasy 1960.09.19 notes Pittsfield death_date Obituary.