Abigail N. Holmes ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

   Cause of her death was Apoplexy.⁶

  Death Notes:

Name: Abbie N. Holmes
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Mar 1905
Event Place: Pepperell, Massachusetts
Residence Place: Pepperell, Massachusetts
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: housekeeper
Birthplace: Hollis, N.H.
Birth Year (Estimated): 1837
Burial Date: 19 Mar 1905
Burial Place: Pepperell, Mass
Cemetery: Walton Cemetery
Father's Name: Ira Holmes
Father's Birthplace: Hopkinton, N.H.
Mother's Name: Harriet Newell
Mother's Birthplace: Pepperell, Mass

Citing this Record
"Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWJQ-9FS : 11 March 2018), Harriet Newell in entry for Abbie N. Holmes, 16 Mar 1905; citing Pepperell, Massachusetts, v 76 cn 43, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,071,018.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She has alternate birth date of February 1837 and a birth location of Hollis, NH.

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• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Pepperell, MA on 27 August 1850. ⁹

1850 US Census
Page 257A, Dwelling 386, Family 433
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Samuel Merrill..55..NH..Carpenter
Sarah N. Merrill..43..MA
Abigail N. Holmes..13..MA
Charles T. Holmes..9..MA
Samuel B. Merrill..6..MA

(Living with brother, Charles, at the home of Samuel and Sarah Merrill.)
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• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Pepperell, MA on 22 August 1860. ³

1860 US Census
Page 236, Roll 511, Dwelling 1969, Family 1936
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Value of Real Estate, $250 (comparatively very low)
Abigail Holmes..23..MA..Domestic

(Living with father and step-mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Pepperell, MA on June 1880. ⁴

1880 US Census
Page 377C, Roll 0539
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
S. Wm. Fletcher..Self..48..MA..Physician
Martha Fletcher..Wife..47..NH..Keeping House
Martha E. Fletcher..Daughter..10..MA..At School
Robert Ross..Other..20..MA..Servant
Frank C. Woodbury..Other..20..MA..Servant
Abby N. Holmes..Other..43..MA..Servant

(Living with another family as a servant.)
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Pepperell, MA on 4 June 1900. ⁵

1900 US Census
Sheet 2A, District 915, Family 32
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Home owned, no mortgage
Samuel Fletcher..Head.Sep 1831..69..MA..Widowed..Physician
Abby N. Holmes..Servant..Feb 1837..63..MA..Housekeeper
Elizabeth J. Palmer..Servant..Aug 1867..32..MA..Servant
George N. Hill..Servant..Aug 1827..72..NH..Servant
Luther S. Bancroft..Servant..Oct 1880..19..MI..Servant

(Abby was living with a widowed physician and working as a housekeeper.)
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• Death Image: 16 March 1905, in Pepperell, MA. ⁶

• She was buried on 19 March 1905 in the Walton Cemetery in Pepperell, MA.

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