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Mary Viva Bisbee

Female 1874 - 1942  (67 years)

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  • Name Mary Viva Bisbee  [1, 2]
    Birth 16 Nov 1874  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Gender Female
    Census 21 Jun 1880  Wayne Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Census 6 Jun 1900  French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 2 May 1910  Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Census 9 Apr 1930  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Death 24 Jun 1942  Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    • Divorced/widow.
      Usual residence: R.D.1 Wattsburg, Pa. [8]
    Mary Viva Eaton Pennsylvania Certificate of Death    		 Mary Viva Eaton Pennsylvania Certificate of Death
    Erie county file 55530 (1942)
    Burial 26 Jun 1942  Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Viva M and DeForest Taylor    		 Viva M and DeForest Taylor
    Photo by CherylA
    Mary Viva Bisbee Eaton Memorial with Gravestone Photos and Family Links    		 Mary Viva Bisbee Eaton Memorial with Gravestone Photos and Family Links
    created at Find A Grave by CherylA
    Person ID I96  Bisbee
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2017

    Father Ephraim Bisbee,   b. 20 Nov 1841, Lebanon Town, Madison, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1890, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Mother Celinda J. Thompson,   b. 28 Aug 1839, , , New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1912, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    Marriage 19 Feb 1869  Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 14] 
    • Celinda was not from the local area. She was raised at Crown Point, New York, and at the time of her marriage to Ephraim, her family was still living there. According to Ephraim's Civil War record, they were married near Wattsburg. It is not known why Celinda was in the Wattsburg area.

      Ephraim and Celinda were married by Bryan S. Hill, Minister of the Gospel and the ceremony was witnessed by A. E. Reynolds (Addison Reynolds) and Ruth A. Reynolds.
    Family ID F59  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Deforest Taylor,   b. 4 Nov 1872, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Aug 1913, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
    Marriage Abt 1895  [10] 
    Notes 
    • This family lived in the area of Wattsburg and Lowville, Pa. Leon Taylor, Lowville, Pa. was bedridden for many years with a strange and rare disease in which a limestone formation entered his system, paralyzed him, and gradually "turned him to stone". He lay in his bed, by a window, and waved to passersby, who knew him, from far and wide. [15]
    Children 
     1. Ralph Melvin Taylor,   b. 10 Nov 1895, , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1919, Union Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years)
     2. Grace Isobel Taylor,   b. 22 Sep 1897, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1978, Spartansburg, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     3. Silas Taylor,   b. 3 Aug 1902   d. Oct 1902 (Age 0 years)
     4. Leon Deforest Taylor,   b. 21 Aug 1899, Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1949, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     5. Bernice Taylor,   b. Abt Jul 1908, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Madelene Taylor,   b. 8 Oct 1911, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jun 1985 (Age 73 years)
     7. Donald Forest Taylor,   b. 17 Apr 1914, French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1963, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Sep 2009

    Family 2 Fred Elsworth Eaton,   b. 5 Feb 1862, , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1929, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Nov 1874 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 21 Jun 1880 - Wayne Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 6 Jun 1900 - French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 May 1910 - Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 Jan 1920 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 9 Apr 1930 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Jun 1942 - Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 26 Jun 1942 - Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 58.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 13.

    3. [S2402] Erie County, Pennsylvania, Probate Records, (Erie County Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania), File 18893, Celinda J. Bisbee Last Will & Testament.
      "Last will and testament of Celinda J. Bisbee (widow) of Wayne Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. "Item 1: I will and direct that the sum of twenty-five dollars each shall be paid to my sons Elwin A. Bisbee and Curtis C. Bisbee. "Item 2: I will and direct that the sum of fifty dollars each be paid to my daughters Viva M. Taylor and Annie S. Buxton and that my feather bed and pillows be given to my daughter Annie S. Buxton. "Item 3: I will and devise that my wearing apparel be equally divided between my daughters Viva M. Taylor and Annie S. Buxton. "Item 4: I will and devise that my Executor herin after named shall cause to be placed at my grave a marker as near like the one of my husband's grave as possible, and to pay for the same out of the proceeds of my estate. "Item 5: I will and direct that the remainder of my property both real and personal and mixed shall be given to my son Arthur E. Bisbee to his own personal use, during the period of his natural life. At his death should he leave a wife or heirs, I will and direct that the estate shall go to them. In (blank) "Item 6: I hereby constitute and appoint my son Elwin A. Bisbee Executor of this my last will and testament written on one full sheet of legal cap. paper, and to which I have affixed my hand and seal this twentieth day of September, A D one thousand nine hundred and ." /s/ Celinda J. Bisbee.

    4. [S2090] Bisbee, Celinda J. Thompson: Probate, (Erie County Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania).

    5. [S1239] Civil War Pension File, Ephraim Bisbee (Private, Co F, 111 Pa Volunteer Infantry ) , WC-293-240.
      4 April 1890. Celinda J. Bisbee files a Widow's Declaration for Pension or Increase of Pension with the clerk of the Quarter Session, a court of record etc. Celinda is 50 years old. She says her late husband bore the rank of Private in Company F 111 PA VI when he was discharged, and that he died of lung disease "near Wattsburg" on 14 February 1890. She says they were married 19 February 1869 by Bryan S. Hill, Minister of the Gospel at Wattsburg, Pa. Celinda lists the surviving children under 16 years of age at the death of their father:
      Mary V. Bisbee, born November 16, 1874
      Sarah A. Bisbee, born July 12, 1877
      Curtis C. Bisbee, born September 3, 1883
      Application was witnessed by Curtis C. Bisbee and H. B. Taylor, both of Wattsburg.

    6. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 130.

    7. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 25.

    8. [S2885] Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, Mary Viva Eaton, Erie county file 55530 (1942).

    9. [S2083] Bisbee, Ephraim (I53): 1880 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T9, roll 1129; enumeration district (ED) 178, enumerated page 17, master page 322A, line 23, dwelling 180, family 189; image downloaded 11/4/2008.), 1880-Wayne.178.17.jpg.

    10. [S2490] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1900 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T623, roll 1014, enumeration district (ED) 95, sheet 3A, page 17A, line 3, dwelling 48, family 50; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1900.NY.Chautauqua.French Creek.95.5.

    11. [S2638] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1910 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2006): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T624, roll 1333; enumeration district (ED) 39, sheet 13B, page 58B, line 58, dwelling 149, family 149; image accessed 9/26/2009.), 1910.PA.Crawford.Spring.39.24.

    12. [S2491] Taylor, Viva Mary Bisbee (I96): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1567, enumeration district (ED) 143, sheet 1A, page 218A, line 38, dwelling 11, family 11; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1920.PA.Erie.Venango.143.1.

    13. [S2492] Taylor, Leon DeForest (I214): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2038, enumeration district (ED) 141, sheet 3A, page 183, line 39, dwelling 53, family 53; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1930.PA.Erie.Venango.141.5.

    14. [S1239] Civil War Pension File, Ephraim Bisbee (Private, Co F, 111 Pa Volunteer Infantry ) , WC-293-240.
      Celinda J. Bisbee, the former Celinda J. Thompson, provides statements that she was married on 19 Feb 1869, near Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, by Minister of the Gospel, Bryan S. Hill, and that neither she nor Ephraim had been previously married. She cannot provide documented proof of her marriage, because Rev. Hill has died and, according to Hill's wife, he did not keep records. Ruth A. Reynolds, Charles A. Bisbee, Curtis C. Bisbee and others testify that they were present at her marriage and confirm the date, place and by whom.

    15. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 26.