Remembering April Birthdays
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- Remembering April Birthdays
Mary Ellen (Button) Gass and Charles W. Silver were both born in April. Mary Ellen was born 150 years ago this month and Charles W. Silver was born 185 years ago.
From the Burbidge Family
Mary Ellen (Button) Gass, a great-great-great-grandmother from my kids through me and my Mom to her Mom, Moiselle (Stoney) Burbidge, to her Mom, Lulu Ellen (Gass) Stoney, to her Mom, Mary Ellen (Button) Gass, and she was probably an April baby born on April 3, 1870. She was born in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah to Jutson and Ellen (Taylor) Button. *
… and from the Cummings Family
Happy Birthday to Charles W. Silver! A third great-grandfather — from my children to their Dad to his Mom to her Mom, Nellie Frances (Silver) Cummings, to Charles F. Silver to his father, Charles W. Silver. He was most probably born on April 21, 1835 to Nathan and Sally (Swain?) Silver in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine.†
Sources & Notes
- *Utah Sate Archives, “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967,” searchable database and images, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service (https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes/20842.htm : last accessed 4 April 2020), entry for Mary Ellen Gass.
- †“Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922,”searchable database and images, Ancestry.com (https://search.ancestry.com : last accessed 2 April 2020), Charles W. Silver, 21 April 1835.